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Deep Breath… It’s Game Time!
Dear Reader: This Tuesday will be the day I drive Ben over to Wellmore Assisted Living on Daniel Island and I have been praying constantly that this move is a positive game changer! We are certainly...
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We Are All In This Together
Dear Reader: . nwould give Tomorrow is the day I meet Lee and Vikki ( with Ben) to start a new journey in his life. There is no way to completely make things all right for my brother. I feel like I am...
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Upon Entering New Thresholds
Dear Reader: Whenever I am looking for just the right words to describe the complexity of my feelings and emotions that have become cocooned within me …I turn to my Irish poet John O’ Donohue. In his...
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” God’s Inspiration on a Summer Morning”
Dear Reader: ” Humble Yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.” This whole recent experience …caring for my brother who is experiencing short memory loss and confusion …has definitely left...
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Burdens Give Us Wings
Dear Reader: I slept last night. What a joy to be able to say that… I had not slept through the night since Ben arrived. I never knew when Ben would appear in the morning-could be six or ten. He paced...
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God Blows Away Expressions like ” I’ve Blown It.”
Dear Reader: How many of us have thought to ourselves ” I’ve blown it… if only I had a second chance?” From the Creation on…the number 2 is the first number that we can divide another number from…as...
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How Can Our Faith be Trusted… if Never Tested?
Dear Reader: In Ecclesiastes 3… Scripture reads ” To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven”… Apparently God must think we are all challenged learners since just...
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Waiting on the Next Bloom
Dear Reader: I am waiting on the next moonflower bloom to appear and open. Don’t you remember how excited I was when a couple of weeks ago the first gorgeous bloom appeared? I was at one of my lowest...
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From the “Pits” to the Pendulum
Dear Reader: I still remember the sheer terror I felt as a youth going to see Vincent Price’s movie version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum. The whole neighborhood gang went and I didn’t...
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Leaving a Capsule of Future Advice
Dear Reader: I had to chuckle to myself when I read StoryWorth’s question for this week. “What advice would you give your great-grandchildren?” I don’t admit to being very good at math but even I know...
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” Unplug Boo… Yes I Mean YOU!”
Dear Reader: It dawned on me yesterday, while the monsoons hit full force, off and on in strong intervals, that it had happened… burnout had hit me with the same force as the outside gales. When I got...
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” Make Me A Blessing to Someone Today”
Dear Reader: A great God Wink yesterday appeared while going through a book shelf… the first book in the Mitford series fell out and I read the introduction inside the front cover. The summary read:...
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Remember the Days You Prayed for What You Have Now ?
Dear Reader: Susan drove me to Wellmore Assisted Living yesterday since she had to pick up some medical tests from East Cooper Hospital. Ben was in great spirits… he’s exercising now daily and the...
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The Overkill of “Literally” Today
Dear Reader: While riding down Johnny Dodds Avenue Thursday I saw what looked like a small mini-van with the following words on the back window. We’re Here to Help Brighten Your Day From the back it...
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The Secret of the Rocks
Dear Reader: This month marks the 11th year of the Chapelofhope stories. It all began on August 7, 2000! The biggest turning point in my life. ..when I decided to reach out into the new frontier … at...
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A ” Plum Nilly” Story
Dear Reader: Now that I have allowed myself to go back down memory lane … eleven years in the making… my head is exploding with recollections I have not entertained in so long… I am having to shake...
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Re-connecting to the ” Chapel of Hope Connection”
First Visit to St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope-July 2010 Dear Reader: The picture above was the most looked at photo in 2015 in my mobile phone’s photo albums…even though the original picture had been the...
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… And the Pieces of the Puzzle Came Together…
Dear Reader: This beautiful stain-glass window isn’t in St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope… but in Aldersgate Methodist Church in North Charleston where yesterday I gave a short message to the Women of the...
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Let’s Start at the Very Beginning…A Very Good Place to Start
“Love is the child who breathes our breath. Love is the child that scatters death.” ( William Blake) Dear Reader: On July 26, 2010 I first laid eyes on St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope. By that time,...
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Just Have Trust and a Little Luck
Dear Reader: How many of us have heard expressions similar to ” Keep the trust… but a little luck “don’t” hurt either? ” Yesterday was one of those days when trust and luck seemed to be fighting it...
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