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“He Will Make the Crooked Path Straight”…
Dear Reader: Yesterday I took a picture of this walkway leading into the Crossroads Community Church because I liked the symbolism of this scripture verse from Isaiah: 45:2 (“He will make the crooked...
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Have a “Retro” Christmas!
Dear Reader: Yesterday I went over to the new home to keep Eva Cate while Mandy and John continued picking up odds and ends needed for their new residence. Somehow in the middle of all this moving...
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Hope and Joy at Christmas
Dear Reader: Yesterday Anne and I were asked to light the third candle of Advent- the pink/rose colored candle which stands for JOY. (Believe me it was a joy when the lighter worked the first time...
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Dreaming of a Pink Christmas
Dear Reader: Aren’t memories strange? I was proof-reading yesterday’s blog and updating the count to 200,000 YEAH!..So many of you were trying to help out by re-entering the blog, everyone wanting to...
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The Best of Christmas Past
Dear Reader: Christmas time is when I want to go back and re-read favorite books and stories…alas…usually time doesn’t permit…but I actually think I will be able to pull it off this year…I am ahead of...
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Beautiful Oops
Dear Reader: I am always looking for art books that a teacher can use to teach children.. In other words I am always on the prowl for more books for Mandy’s art classes. This has got to be one of …...
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Mountain Meditation
Dear Reader: I had faith that somehow this Christmas something would bring me back home to the Chapel of Hope. You might remember last year it was Marc from New Zealand who had found a painting of the...
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“You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down”
Dear Reader: Welcome to Brooke and Ted’s home. I am going to give you a “southern living” tour in just a moment but before I do….let me explain what Brooke did before her surgery Thursday. She and a...
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“Sleep in Heavenly Peace”
Dear Reader: The last time I showed this picture on a blog post.. (it was self-ridicule for me not getting started on the garden)…the whole backyard, minus a garden, was sleeping. It took...
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Life is “Baeutiful”
Dear Reader: When I came across this story a few weeks ago I thought that some editor didn’t do their job with the title since “baeutiful” was spelled incorrectly…(a teacher thing.) But then I...
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Living, Not Waiting
Dear Reader: It has taken me a lifetime but in years passed (about this time of the Christmas season) I would be approaching ‘not quite but almost panic mode’ status thinking of all that still needs...
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“The Legend of the Palmetto Rose Cross”
Dear Reader: Merry Christmas! This Christmas will go down in my memory as the year of the sweetgrass “Palmetto Rose Buds and Crosses.” You might remember that I attended a sweetgrass basket exhibit at...
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And Now…A Christmas “Pause”
Dear Reader: At four thirty yesterday afternoon I “hit the wall.” All the decorating, preparing, anticipating, eating, celebrating, storytelling, writing…it all came to a crashing halt. Like Eva...
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The “Characters” in Our Story…our Play
Dear Reader: Until recently I never really thought of life as a play…a story, yes, but not a play (per se)…*Sorry, I couldn’t leave out the pun rhyme! But then again, I thought, a play is just another...
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“The Christmas Orange”
Dear Reader: (I have had several requests, recently, for a Christmas story I used to tell my social studies classes for many years. It always touched me and obviously, from the requests, some of you...
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The Carpenter’s Gift
Dear Reader: I promised I would tell you the story I told on Christmas Eve and today is the first time I feel like I have come up for air long enough to stop and do just that. It was … Continue reading →
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Finding Our Personal Alignment
Dear Reader: We all know when our physical alignment is off….just ask Brooke about her tendons and ligaments struggling to hold her knee in place as she works painfully to restore them to their...
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An End of the Year “Dingle Dangle”
Dear Reader: Mystery solved….no wonder I have been feeling a little off-kilter lately…wouldn’t you if you were a Dingle precariously “dangling” …ready to take the plunge any minute…HELP! (It is never a...
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Chasing the Rabbit…
Dear Reader: This might sound like a strange way to start the New Year (2014)…but the more I thought about the message within the anecdote…the more I liked it. Reverend Ben Craddock, from Georgia,...
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Our Unseen Guide…
Dear Reader: With the new year upon us…we all want to start heading in the right direction… beginning with the first day of the New Year. The question that puzzles us, however, is “What is the right...
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