Going to the Ant: Communing As a People

Mrs. Laning is a wife and mother in Hope Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan. My five-year old daughter presented me with her drawing: a stick figure topped with curly hair standing next to a long dotted line. I guessed the person was her, but the dotted line had me stumped. "Guess what that is," she said smiling. "Rocks?" I fumbled. She shook her head. "A jump rope?" I tried. Her eyebrows furrowed. "They're ants!" she declared. "They always do that. You know, follow each...