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Making Those Important Life “Deposits”
Dear Reader: I have often thought that there ought to be more templates available for different deposit slips that have nothing to do with money or finance…instead they are deposit slips that can be...
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March Came in Like a LAMB!
Dear Reader: After all the cloudy days, chilly days and rainy days we have experienced this winter…yesterday March came in like the sweetest little lamb you ever saw….warm, sunny disposition, blue...
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Your Soul Always Knows the Way
Dear Reader: Some days isn’t it hard to try to figure out where to start the day, how to prioritize the check-off list, and finally how to land where you should have been all along…in a place of...
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Nature and Worship…An Added Grace of Peace and Serenity
Dear Reader: I love the big oaks with the swaying Spanish moss that seem to lean over our sanctuary with protecting arms. If these trees could talk…what sights and stories they could share…starting...
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The Great American Heroes Among Us
Dear Reader: I had just gotten back from the Oncology Center yesterday afternoon (to pick up my monthly medicines) and was already climbing out of my soaked raincoat and back into “Pinkie” my most...
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Potato Chips Saved the Day!
Dear Reader: I thought I was ready for Miss Eloise yesterday morning as I arrived at her house in the pouring rain…I had gotten her a new Touch and Feel book as well as Peek-a -Flap book, two of her...
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“Timely” Issues and “Queen-agers”
Dear Reader: Get ready…here we go again…it is time to spring forward an hour tonight into…a lot of changes for our sleep habits, daily habits, and health issues…which create some challenging...
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God’s Amazing Wardrobe
Dear Reader: “Nature is the living, visible garment of God.” Goethe Now I will never have to wonder again what God will be wearing tomorrow….a thought I have had since a child….”What does God wear...
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Run-Away Childhoods…They End Too Soon!
Dear Reader: Like Rutledge, Lachlan, and Eloise…it had been weeks on end since I saw Jake and Eva Cate. But Saturday night I babysat while John and Mandy grabbed some precious “alone” time for dinner...
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The Week of Crazies…But We Can Do This!
Dear Reader: Last Saturday night after John and Mandy returned from their dinner…Eva Cate, Mandy, and I watched “International House Hunters” (HGTV)…Eva Cate and Mandy have an on-going date to watch...
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Saying Good-Bye to Serenity and Embracing Real Life
Dear Reader: Life is a beautiful balancing act..when I return home to Summerville it is, on the whole, a leisurely life…working in the garden, planting new life which always thrills me, and as of a...
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Bowls of Hope… Filled with Heart
Dear Reader: Honey Burrell is one of those remarkable women that you know, intuitively when you meet her, that you have been lucky enough to be chosen to come into contact with her in your...
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We Love Weekends!
Dear Reader: You see how I am purposefully not mentioning that today is Friday the 13th…I think we have had enough “crazies” this week… yet we have all hung together and had a great time! The children...
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A Week of Faith…
Dear Reader: Home again after spending most of the week with Mandy and the children….you might remember that in spite of the “crazy” events happening this week…daylight savings time started, a full...
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A Week of “Tested” Faith…Fire and Love
Dear Reader: What a God Wink awaited me these past two days- Thursday and Friday…(yes the 13th)…and as much as we thought we had successfully ignored that old “13” it came to fruition Friday...
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A “Pitcher” of Change in our World
Dear Reader: On my first full day home from Mt. Pleasant I hurried outside to bring in some new plant pots from the car to be planted and decided to change the “plant pitcher” on the porch to...
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A Time to Remember…Again
Dear Reader: As further restrictions on human gatherings tighten and time approximations for the length of these quarantine controls increase…due to the predicted intensification of the coronavirus...
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May You Trust God that You are Exactly Where You Are Meant to be
Dear Reader: One positive thing to come out of this period of growing uncertainty is more communication from family and friends. I have talked to my children more in the last couple of days than I...
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We Need to Trust that Where We Are Today will Help Define Who We will be...
Dear Reader: The first text I got early yesterday morning was from Honey. She said “The views from our mountain deck have been different and beautiful these last few mornings. The birds are singing...
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“There’s More to Life…”
Dear Reader: On mother’s side of the family, the Wilsons, everyone had the same favorite advice cliche that could be used for many different situations… You knew it was coming when a grandparent,...
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