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The Chapel’s Gift of Hope…Matt’s Story
(Painting by Gerda Smit) Dear Reader: Since Easter is all about hope and its resurrection in all of us, through the sacrifice of Christ, I thought for the next few days that I would share how St....
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The Chapel’s Gift of Hope-Reverend Kenneth Brown’s Story
Dear Reader: From New Zealand to Gadsden, Alabama, St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope once again brings hope and faith to another pilgrim -named Reverend Kenneth Brown… by providing him the guidance he needed...
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The Chapel’s Gift of Hope-Ambika’s Story
Dear Reader: I have realized that with Matt’s story and Reverend Kenneth Brown’s story, as well as Ambika’s today, what connects all three is the amazing “anchor” of hope that manifest itself in a...
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When Faith and Hope Collide…Miracles are Born
(gerdasmitart) Psalm 59:15 “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you and thou shall glorify me.” Dear Reader: Good Friday is definitely a day filled with paradoxes. Trouble and human...
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That Hopping “Hoping” Easter Bunny!
Dear Reader: I thought it just wouldn’t be Easter if we didn’t stop and give thanks for the Easter Bunny too. After all he/she is a very important part of our childhoods. (Much better than the tooth...
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Oh Happy Day! Easter
(Gerdasmitart) Dear Reader: It might take a stretch of imagination to visualize Jesus belting out “Oh what a beautiful morning…Oh what beautiful day”….from the musical Oklahoma…but I feel sure Jesus...
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Well, “Bless My Blooms”
(Gift from Joan Turner) Dear Reader: Easter has come and gone again….in waves of spring showers. The sun actually peeked out for a few minutes yesterday morning while I was picking flowers in the...
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“I Love It When a Plan Comes Together”
“Personal Photo of the lake at Wakendaw Lakes Subdivision) Dear Reader: One of the most famous lines from the popular television series of the eighties (The A-Team) was spoken by the lead character,...
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Finding our “Verve”!
Dear Reader: Monday I had lunch with a friend at O’Charlies. We were seated in the bar area and I happened to look up and see this sign. “Come on back for Good Times.” I found myself automatically...
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“Delight of the Day”
Dear Reader: I always check, intermittently, in on one of my favorite blog writers , Kate Wolfe-Jensen to see how she is doing. She has MS and has lost most of her ability to control physical...
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“Do Tell!”
(Sculpture/Gift “The Storyteller” Rene Harris/ADK) Dear Reader: I received this most precious gift as a retirement “memorial” from my ADK sisters. We had gone to Mepkin Abby, as a group, to see the...
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Home is Where Your Story Begins…
Dear Reader: A couple of days ago I pulled up the National Storytelling Festival and was amazed at the new International Storytelling Center that has been built right downtown Jonesborough, Tennessee....
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Embrace the Day…Not the Profits
Dear Reader: “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.” – Carl Sandburg The deck and the garden are the two best purchases I ever...
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Investing In Ourselves: Straw or Gold?
Dear Reader: We humans are complicated beings. Most of us recognize our “talents” fairly early….we figure out what subjects we are better in, what interests we possess, what PR skills we possess or...
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Finding Our “Nourishing” Niche
Dear Reader: I will mark this day on my potting calendar….April 4, 2016….my first potting project begins in my new semi-renovated potting shed.! I found this astrological moon calendar….just perfect...
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The Reverent and All-knowing Gerber Daisy
Dear Reader: Don’t you love Gerber Daisies? Their beautiful little smiling faces just make you smile walking by. Over the years I have planted more and more of them and this year I am reaping the...
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A Belated Thank You Note to “Little c”
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I was catching up writing some notes to friends and family…consisting of sympathy, birthday, and new home/move cards. After I had finished I went out on the deck (with...
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Grasping the Unknown
Dear Reader: The other day I came across a line of scripture that made me stop and re-think the close connection between letting go and grasping the unknown…a close connection but a long leap of faith...
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..”Still Sit Up and Take Nourishment”
Dear Reader: I remember one of Poppy’s (Mr. Dingle) favorite responses when asked how he was doing was to respond, “Couldn’t be better…I can still sit up and take nourishment.” (We all knew it was...
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“A Blustery Kind of Day”
Dear Reader: I am not a big fan of “blustery days”…on many levels. Teachers are part-time meteorologists/astrologers when it comes to understanding the connection between the weather and their...
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