Showing Up, Trusting the Journey, and Embracing Faith Over Fear….

Dear Reader

I have a confession… I am completely bored with myself! Me, Myself, and I! I am ready to be around people… hear funny stories … some jokes… so if you have heard a funny one lately please please share!

Yesterday my new chemo drug arrived from New York, and my nausea medicine ( Zofran) prescription was sent in to CVS… slowly but surely I am learning to let go and ” trust the journey. ”

And the hardest part of that journey is the pace. It is never fast enough for us humans ( especially when it comes to healing ) but it is God’s pace for us. And no doubt… a reason for it!

Learning a lot of life lessons from the seemingly double whammies thrown at me but I have been down this road before and God always shows us the seemingly invisible path around the obstacle.

Since I can’t start my new chemo medicine unless I have a full stomach… filled with food-not liquids I struggled and got down most of a grilled cheese sandwich and yogurt yesterday afternoon-didn’t come easy but determined to do it. Hopefully the new medicine for nausea will kick in too. Inch by inch… row by row. Trust the journey. Trust the journey.

So until tomorrow… Catherine Marshall ( wife of Peter Marshall) suffered through a very long extended illness and certainly had her faith tested. She later wrote: ” To know God as He really is in His essential nature and character is to arrive at a citadel of peace that circumstances may storm, but can never capture. ”

Today is my favorite day-Winnie the Pooh

Yesterday was **National Sons Day… My ” Thank you” note to God** 💗

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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