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Simpler Times…I’m Ready!
Dear Reader: After all the adventures in the first week of March at Pawleys…I am ready to settle back down and take refuge in my garden, visiting my neighbors, and walking farther distances around the...
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“Let There Be Light”
Dear Reader: Yesterday I left for Sunday School early so I could try and catch my young confirmation partner… whom I am mentoring… during her faith journey. Since I was out of town last Sunday… during...
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“How Do You Know It’s Me?”
Dear Reader: One of my favorite authors, Madeleine L’Engle’s, works are in demand again with the release of A Wrinkle in Time…a popular children’s book turned into a movie. She used the “story as a...
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Finding Faith and Hope in the Small Corners of Our lives
Dear Reader: I got the deck cleaned off yesterday…it was a chilly start with frost…but warmed up nicely…especially in the early afternoon hours…I just wanted to curl up and take a nap on one of the...
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Finding Ourselves in Yellow Highlights
Dear Reader: I think I mentioned a couple of days ago that I got so excited reading Kent Nerburg’s Simple Graces that I stopped reading and ran to get my yellow highlighter marker. When finished…the...
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“Everything Leans to the Light”
Dear Reader: Every time I look out, onto the front yard, from the porch, I notice how my Bradford Pear leans (slanted-ly) to the right. My neighbor’s oak tree’s branches grow over my driveway and...
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A Pawleys Sea Shell…Waves Back!
Dear Reader: The nicest thing about God Winks is when they come from another source I probably never would have connected with…(unless I had decided to write a daily blog one day way back in 2010.)...
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The Window of Happiness
Dear Reader: Aren’t windows happy items by nature? Simply because they let the light in? I read the other day a quote that I liked…(I think it was from a window retail outfit…still the message rang...
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Small Acts Matter Most
Dear Reader: Lately the garden has been calling me back again and again…As much as I have professed disliking raking…for the past several days I have been raking portions of the entire garden. It will...
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Becoming “Practitioners of Wonder”
Dear Reader: Welcome Spring! So good to see you again! ” I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses; And the voice I hear, falling on my ear, The Son of God discloses. Refrain:...
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When H O P E fades, Make a “Sublime” Choice to “Simply” Add Color
Dear Reader: Yesterday was a crazy day, weather-wise…it went from cloudy, to sunny to cloudy again as if teasing us…and finally the thunder boomers, that had been predicted most of the day… rolled in...
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‘When is Old Enough to Know Better Going to Kick In?
Dear Reader: When I saw this little wooden plaque in Simple to Sublime Tuesday I just had to laugh out loud to myself. How true…how true! And I can already give you my answer…“Never!” (Might make a...
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Starting to Delete “But’s” from my Life
Dear Reader: I have come to realize (when I am proof-reading the blog before I put it to bed) that I use too many “but’s” in my sentences. By simply substituting another word like “and” or “even...
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Only God Can Make It Grow!
Dear Reader: I received one of those very special email messages yesterday that truly touched me and brought reassurance that the path I am on is the path I was made to travel. Sometimes I seriously...
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Make a Choice…Make it Happen
Dear Reader: I just happened to catch one segment of GMA before leaving for Mt. Pleasant to keep Eloise Friday. Hilary Swank, the twice Oscar-winning actor, was talking to Robin about her three-year...
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The Black Dot
Dear Reader: While throwing out a bag of old notebooks filled with curriculum coursework requirements from my educational graduate courses …a worksheet fell out of one notebook…and there was a white...
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The “Hedge Hog” Lesson of Life
Dear Reader: Isn’t it funny how we relate certain objects to certain people because we know the items are a favorite of theirs? For example….with Honey…it is pigs and dragonflies. She once had two...
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The “Wonder” of Wonderful
Dear Reader: Every time one of the grandchildren walks through the garden I snip a tiny piece of a rosemary stem off for them to carry…so the “wonder”ful aroma stays with them throughout the garden....
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God’s Gift to Christ…His Friendships on Earth
Dear Reader: I read an article from Guideposts recently that I found interesting. It talked about the different friendships mentioned in the Bible and their overall importance to the persons involved...
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Life’s Extras..Love and Faith
Dear Reader: Yesterday was clean, clean, clean day! It all started when I went to the mailbox to drop a letter off for someone for Easter and noticed that my mailbox…a gift from Mandy who painted...
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