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Thank You for Your Gift of Life…For Me
Dear Reader: Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, I felt the first wave of sadness or perhaps nostalgia is the better word… over the ending of my beloved Chapel of Hope Stories….Part “Uno”. I felt rather...
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The “Potluck” Dinner of Life
Dear Reader: Aren’t “potluck” dinners the best? At least I have always thought so…especially church “potluck” dinners. When Carol Poole asked me to speak at several church functions for her… I...
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“OH!”…
Dear Reader: I read a story the other day about an incident involving C.S. Lewis, one of my favorite writers, and it really hit home to me. It went like this: C. S. Lewis once said that the most...
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The Harbor Master
Dear Reader: I came across a story that presents a metaphor between the role of a harbor master today and the function of the Holy Spirit in our lives. It is the right story… for the “right story”…as...
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“Signed, Sealed, Delivered…It’s Done!”
Dear Reader: It is finished, complete…done….right now the three most beautiful words in the English language! After two years of gradual revision and the last three months of intense re-writing…my gift...
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Growing “Pot” on Rainbow Road
Dear Reader: I thought the title would grab your attention! And to be more specific…it should read growing “pots” on Rainbow Road. Now… it is true confession time…I am a flower pot “junkie.” Not as...
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The Luck of the Redbird…Again!
Dear Reader: Word Press always sends me updates annually to inform me which blog posts have been the most popular within a year, or week, or overall. For whatever reason this story always has more...
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When Fear and Hope Emerge…It’s Memorial Day
Dear Reader: Over the past years on Memorial Day I have written several historical stories…like the “memorable” deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, signers of the Declaration of Independence,...
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“Closing In”…
Dear Reader: Of all the stories I have read and loved…Miss Daisy is on the top of the list for me! I learned/memorized that story years ago and have told it ever since, more times than I can...
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1002…COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU!
Dear Reader: I thought I would be a “gracious” winner and give Scheherazade her last pictorial moment…her 15 “seconds” of fame! She was a worthy opponent for sure. She was also my best friend....
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There’s Always Hope Peeking Around the Corner
Dear Reader: Yesterday I woke up early and went to turn on the air conditioner on the other side…and kerplunk…a strange sound and then nothing. “Oh My”… I thought (translated into a word start with S...
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The Love of Family is Life’s Greatest Blessing…
Dear Reader: As May winds down today and I start a semi-sabbatical for three weeks… I decided that there was no other way to end this post today….other than do a blog about family. Over the (almost)...
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Friendship – Revisited
Dear Reader: (Before we start Cindy’s favorite selection today from the past…let me tell you why she picked this one as a repeat…and I love the idea behind it….Cindy has a special place where she...
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Angels and Sunflowers
Dear Readers: (There is a poignant ‘story behind the story’ of Jackson’s selection today that I want to share with you before you begin the blog. Jackson’s mother, Miriam …seen in the middle of the...
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Beauty Grows in Broken Pots
Dear Reader: (I love blogs that provoke memories for lots of people and this one certainly did!) Read this wonderful response I got from this powerful woman….Faye Miller…whom I didn’t know.) Faye Marie...
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A Memorable Encounter
Dear Reader: ( When Jackson told me that she had picked this particular blog because it touched her so much…I felt a sense of gratitude because it certainly touched me writing it. Last week I took...
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A Twenty Dollar Bill
Dear Reader: (This story reminded me of just how long I have been working around “little c” to keep a life of normalcy and how lucky I have been that it always works out…thank you God!) Thursday when I...
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Save Your Fork…
Dear Reader: (This story taught me another fun word to add to my Word Press vocabularly…to “re-life” …one of my favorite expressions now. I hope you enjoy it…originally written on May 24, 2011.)...
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A Mother’s Day “Surprise”
Dear Reader: (This blog really took me back in time when “Jim Crow” laws were still around and a child’s view (mine) of this shameful system growing up in the fifties and sixties. This blog is...
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Return To The Chapel of Hope
Dear Reader: (Looking back on the visits to St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope…I begin to see a pattern develop between visits…usually a few months apart…the visits coincide with treatments…beginnings or...
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