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A Valentine’s Day tribute to one of the women who helped form me. And a wonderful love story. My Aunt Jeanette was a significant part of my life since the day I was born. She watched me grow up...

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What Anchors You?

What anchors you? Relationships? Work? Drama? Celebrity? Politics? How’s that working? Okay, okay, you’re good if these don’t let you down. If you...

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The Jesus Mystery

Sometimes I do the dumbest things. The last time I was in Florida, I was sitting in the shallow part of the ocean atop a ceramic plate from the bathroom of our hotel, praying it wouldn’t break...

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Let’s Expect A Miracle!

Hurricane Florence is on the way and we’re told she’s about to rip up our Eastern shore like something out of a bad Godzilla movie.If you’re like me, you have friends, family,...

Facing the Storm . . .

A few weeks ago, I was on the beach scanning the wide expanse of the ocean. This enormous body of water, the very first thing on planet Earth, fascinates me. In Genesis we read, “The earth was...

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To My Grandson, the Graduate

Grandchildren are the delight of many of our lives. I’ve never given birth, but through marriage have a grandson, Matthew, who rocks my world. Watching his development from child to manhood has...

A Story for Easter and beyond. The Jewish month Nisan, Day 10, AD 33. Onesimus watches as a huge crowd lines the narrow streets of Jerusalem carrying palm branches torn from nearby trees. The blue,...

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Jesus Goes Viral

The fictional sequel to “The Gift ofChristmas.” This is definitely the place for an interrogation. I look up into the warmth of the crackling, florescent lights beating down like menacing...

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The Gift of Christmas

I hope this heartfelt story puts you in the Christmas spirit, like it does me! Merry Christmas everyone! kcs I should be snuggled in bed, but as my family sleeps, I tiptoe downstairs, the smell of...

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What comes next is better

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The last three months of the year, I need all the energy I can muster. Now this! “That tooth has to come out,” my dentist had said. Since last winter,...

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In His Presence

Bible Story Imaginings

This fictional story was inspired by a sermon by Christine Caine. Onelate October night, wind with pelting rain blustered outside, seeming for all the world like March. Being extremely tired, I...

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The day I learned fear

There’s a scream that if you hear it, you’ll never forget it. Afraid that whatever caused it may be coming for you. I was a child when I heard a scream like that and it paralyzed me. Pain...

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Just Do It!

As I was searching my brain for a new blog, (this one) the word love kept rolling around in my head, even as I tried to ignore it. Then one night I got a fortune cookie that read: “Your meaning...

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Jesus in 2017: Resolution to Revolution

Happy New Year! Look forward–that’s the general theme of January. Many of us make resolutions we can’t keep, promising to be more forgiving, and/or throwing out old habits and junk. I...

The Gift of Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! Until God gives me another Christmas story,I offer this as my Christmas classic!I did some editing and added a few pictures.It’s a preciousstory about a boy . . . and...

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Election Protection

“Said the night wind to the shepherd boy Do you hear what I hear?” * Back biting, bickering, Name calling, worse; A free-falling election That feels like a curse. “Grant us...

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Musings: reunions and going home

Deep in the heart of Appalachia are my roots. I don’t often visit the town of my childhood, now less than half of the 6,700 census population of the 1960’s, depleted by time and...

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The Magnificent Life

I’m not a trailblazer. Put me in the woods with a machete, expecting me to clear a path for others to follow, and I’d probably be whipping it around, striking mosquitoes and bugs, and...

A Triumphant Defeat

Hallelujah for new beginnings! The laststory in the trilogy about financial loss during the 1980s. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. So wrote French philosopher, Michel de...

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House of Grace

In 1981, I was living in a house I couldn’t have dreamed of in the 1950s of my youth. Maybe I could have plunked down fifty cents and seen something similar on the big screen at the Cinderella...

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“It’s None of Your Business”

We lost our home, houses, an airplane, and, oh yes, my mother. Nearly our sanity. And every time I thought things couldn’t get worse they did. This is a hard story to tell, but I’m...

Leaving LoRayne

With a dab of perseverance and a dollop of faith, My Aunt LoRayne proved to me that in the worst of circumstances, all things are possible with God!! The worst nine months of my life? Possibly....

Israel, My Grace

Easter

Happy Easter!! The Israelites have always been and continue to be God’s chosen. When Jesus came to Earth it wasn’tfor all mankind, but for Israel. Jesus was born and He died a Jewish man,...

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The Birmingham Three

The plane was fullthe day weflew to Birmingham, Alabama. My husband Alan had been working in and out of the city for two years and had been coaxing me to visit. The past couple of years, however,...

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Angels Amongst Us

Angels are everywhere! I love it when it is obvious, they are following ME! I shuddered as a snow front pelted the East closing schools and businesses. Reclining on my heated mattress pad, watching...

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The Gift of Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!Two weeks ago, after praying about my Christmas blog,I awoke witha fictional story in my head. (With conceptsI have never considered and terms I don’t know) I wrotethe...

A Love that Never Died

Thanksgiving is about love–love of God, family, country, and for some, just love of food. I’m thankful for much, but especially for family, particularly my Aunt Jeanette, above with her...

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The Forever Season