Monthly Archives: March 2016

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 motion….while creatively learning to … Continue reading →

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 smiling. Wouldn’t it … Continue reading →

  “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, Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith,  played by … Continue reading →

(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 garden to take (for everyone) to … Continue reading →

(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 must have felt that way…on that long ago Sunday morning. … Continue reading →

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 fairy because you … Continue reading →

(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 suffering take center stage but do … Continue reading →

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 little chapel in the North Carolina … Continue reading →

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 to make a life-altering decision. I have … Continue reading →

(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. Jude’s Chapel of … Continue reading →