Still Connecting…Matthew and Brer Rabbit

Dear Reader:

I had a “God Wink” yesterday driving home from Mt. Pleasant. Jakie’s pre-school was closed and that sweet thing slept until after 8:00 in the morning and took a 2 and a 1/2 hour nap.

We then watched a Disney movie, played on the deck, stuck our toes (and bottom of his pants) in the pool, fed the turtles bread…threw balloons up in the air…a big day but also a very calm one.)

I was thinking how the “Day After” a big event, like a holiday is usually a let-down day…but this didn’t happen. Eva Cate lost another tooth and the tooth fairy appeared again…I think I am her lucky “tooth faller-outer“…this is the third time she has lost a tooth when I have spent the night! She had a good day at school.

I told Jakie he wasn’t going to school because his school was closed…the doors were locked. I laughed and told Mandy that “snow days” in the south mean left-over holidays for most of our schools and Jakie was thrilled. He kept saying “School closed…lock…play with Boo-Boo”…so it was a good day after Easter.

I am trying to remember who I said the old Brer Rabbit quote to just recently: “Don’t go looking for Trouble…it will find you soon enough.” But coming home I knew something was nagging at me. Something about “tomorrows” and “worries” and God’s take on them in scripture that ran parallel to Brer Rabbit’s quote. Then it hit me!

Matthew 6:34: “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

Brer Rabbit: (Song of the South) “Don’t go looking for trouble…it will find you soon enough.”

“Great minds think alike”..The Apostle Matthew and Brer Rabbit.

This is a short blog after so many “going-on’s” ….think tonight and tomorrow will be a R&R Day for the Boo! A chill’in kind of day.

“Today is my favorite day” Winnie the Pooh

Susan Komen just announced that the mountains, midlands, and Lowcountry are uniting together this year as one large state affiliate!😁 *There will be two large state relays for the cure! Daniel Island continues to be one of those!❤️

About Becky Dingle

I was born a Tarheel but ended up a Sandlapper. My grandparents were cotton farmers in Laurens, South Carolina and it was in my grandmother’s house that my love of storytelling began beside an old Franklin stove. When I graduated from Laurens High School, I attended Erskine College (Due West of what?) and would later get my Masters Degree in Education/Social Studies from Charleston Southern. I am presently an adjunct professor/clinical supervisor at CSU and have also taught at the College of Charleston. For 28 years I taught Social Studies through storytelling. My philosophy matched Rudyard Kipling’s quote: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Today I still spread this message through workshops and presentations throughout the state. The secret of success in teaching social studies is always in the story. I want to keep learning and being surprised by life…it is the greatest teacher. Like Kermit said, “When you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe you rot.”

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