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You Are My SunShine
Dear Reader: “What a day, what a day, what a day”…yesterday was. Remember I mentioned how happy I was Thursday because the sun had finally come out…and it just made me plain happy? The older I get the...
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Bringing Order into Chaos…Simply “Divine”
(Title Painting: Anne Peterson) Dear Reader: I picked up Simple Abundance (one of my all-time favorite books to re-read occasionally) ..and turned to its ideas for any and every new year promise of...
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Life is a Trade-Off… in Our Search for Balance
Dear Reader: I had to smile to myself yesterday afternoon leaving John and Mandy’s house with this creative neighborhood exit sign…the sign I always look forward to reading on my way out…for its quick...
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Coffee Pots and Other “Heavenly” God Winks
Dear Reader: Yesterday I had an email from Susan…concerning a strange coincidence that happened to her… in regard to the very recent death of her younger sister, Wanda, from Covid complications this...
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Keeping the Faith…In What Will Be
Dear Reader: Yesterday was a “freeze-frame“day. One we wish we could “groundhog day” over and over. After all my Goldilock “whining” about how one day was too chilly, the next too windy, and the next...
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Finding Our True Colors in a Tapestry
Dear Reader: When it comes to trying to find the answers to why bad things happen to good people…the metaphor of a tapestry perhaps best addresses it…at least for me…a visual learner. Having had...
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Be Here Now…
Dear Reader: For Christmas Doodle gave me a copy of Hoda Kotb’s book called: I Really Needed This Today. Doodle said some of the quotes and thoughts reminded her of Chapelofhopestories….and she hoped...
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“Handle it, Handle it, Handle it!”
Dear Reader: How many of you remember the old comedy sitcom Carter Country? If so…you might, also, recall it was supposedly set near Jimmy Carter’s home site…(since he was President during the...
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When Life Takes Our Breath Away…
Dear Reader: Remember me telling y’all the night before last…about how “comfy” I was in my recliner in the evenings… watching movies, fun television shows, or simply reading….it was the special gift...
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“Life Begets Life”…
Dear Reader: Wouldn’t it have been nice when we were taking that one required economics high school course (for graduation) if our teacher had written the most important “economic” principle on the...
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God And Me Time
Dear Reader: This Monday’s StoryWorth’s question asked me what I learned from my parents. My immediate response was…the question should read “What Didn’t I Learn from my Parents?” Even though my...
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An Unforgettable Response
Dear Reader: Before we talk about one fascinating origin behind a daily response (that we take for granted) in today’s post..first let me thank you for your unforgettable responses to yesterday’s blog...
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The Elusive Missing Day on the Calendar
Dear Reader: A couple of weeks ago Honey sent me a 2021 New Year’s Calendar…as a donation and tribute to a local artist she knows. I was so appreciative of this gift… since my goal this year is to get...
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Will the vowels “i” and “o” on the Keyboard Please Switch!!!
Dear Reader: We unfortunate “children of the sentence diagram/language requirement decades” still bear scars from the terrifying call to go to the blackboard to diagram a sentence. I remember my sixth...
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Clearing the Air
Dear Reader: I think summer thunderstorms are my one of favorite things. I have been thinking about the lyrics to Julie Andrews “Favorite Things” from the Sound of Music… she would be hard-pressed to...
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“Whatever Lord”!
Dear Reader: If you were a parent in the late eighties or early nineties of middle school or high school-age teenagers, and or/ a teacher like me with children around that age (double whammy)… you...
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It Came to Pass…Not to Stay
Dear Reader: With Christmas still a fairly recent memory…we all know the famous first lines by Luke in the Christmas Story…the birth of Jesus. …”And it came to pass in those days that there went out a...
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No Groundhog for Us….Welcome Our Own “Ambassador of Spring”
Dear Reader: I just named our low country alligator “Alvin” for fun…but low country naturalists, actually, do use alligators to predict when spring will arrive in the low country of South Carolina....
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Finding that Most Elusive Creature of All…Ourselves
Dear Reader: Sometimes the seemingly simplistic things in life are the most elusive. Discovering who we really are under the skin is one of these…our likes, dislikes, interests, passions….all the...
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Loving Linus…and His Blue Blanket
Dear Reader: There is something so adorable about Linus and his security blue blanket that touches everyone… in their own insecure spots. He first appeared on television in 1952 carrying his blue...
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