We All Fight Our Own Darkness and We All Must Produce Our Own Courage…

Dear Reader:

When this title visual popped up the other day… it made me pause to reflect. Courage to fight our way out of dark situations has nothing to do with feelings. It is the act of doing something what one feels is right despite one’s fears. Where there is no fear, there can be no courage.

We can’t simply wait for courage to arrive. We will wait forever. The ” feeling” will never come because it doesn’t exist. We are only courageous when we do what we feel is right, despite our fear. Both inspiration and desperation provide the catalysts. But only we, ourselves, can display courage!

We have all been there and know this to be true and how people who find it at a critical moment are inspired by those around them and act accordingly or reach inward farther than ever before and not only find it… but act on it.

And with courage light reappears… and for each of us … we can take it and share it with the world.

**Think about it… if everyone of us spread the light … what a different world we would live in… there would be no room for darkness.**

So until tomorrow…I will update you in a minute… but courage is needed in my life now and I pray for all of you facing hard times, situations, or decisions. Sometimes getting up every day to face the world IS the most courageous thing of all.

Ben is still struggling at MUSC-haven’t gotten any reports back from his MRI-Lee puts me on FaceTime… so I can see Ben but he has changed so much in appearance that it is all I can do not to break down. He is ” estimated” to return to Wellmore Wednesday and no doubt tough decisions and changes are facing us. But we will face them as a family.

Please keep Ben in your prayers… I am definitely on the backside of my virus issue! So thankful!!!!!!!!Your prayers brought me back to me …no doubt!

God is still winking and reassuring me to trust in Him. When I went outside … for the FIRST time since May when I bought a pot with a pretty Gerber Daisy in it, it bloomed yesterday. It had been given the grand entrance place at the front of the garden and all spring and summer… did nothing! Leaves turned brown … tried everything but nothing bloomed… came so close to tossing it and replacing it… but something stopped me each time.

Today is my favorite day-Winnie the Pooh

Yesterday was National Daughter’s Day and what an amazing daughter ( Mandy) God gave me!

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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