Author Archives: Becky Dingle

Dear Reader: This year (for the annual Christmas Eve story at my church) I adapted the last short story my friend and author, Gloria Houston, wrote as part of a Christmas anthology she was asked (by an editor) to participate … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It is a bit of an oxymoron when we attend Christmas Eve services to listen to Luke’s Christmas Story…settling in quite comfortably and peacefully in our pews to hear the reassuring familiar words read again. Because if we … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Like a domino effect, the God Winks started innocently enough Saturday evening when Bill Dingle, my brother-in-law, texted me to say that his oldest daughter, Emma, a freshman at Western Carolina, was browsing in a crafts shop (Tunnel … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: How many times have we sung “O Come O Come Emmanuel” and wondered about the second inferred reference with the words “Draw nigh, O Jesse’s Rod “… Matthew 1:23: “A virgin will conceive and give birth to a … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: Today is the Winter Solstice…the day when darkness prevails… culminating in this meteorological phenomenon  ‘dubbed’ nowadays as the ‘shortest day’ of the year. Man, in ancient times, understood this annual occurrence but feared the day because of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: We will not have a snowy Christmas  this year… but yesterday morning came pretty close to looking like one. I opened my front door around 8:00 a.m. to check and see if ‘Little Big Red’ (the geranium) had come … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I have my fingers and toes crossed that ‘Little Big Red’…my ‘chip off  the old block’ …cloned from its decade-old father geranium will survive the next two nights in tact. The temperatures will be just below freezing and Red … Continue reading →

Painting: (Courtesy of LeonardodaVinci.net) Dear Reader: Doesn’t the thought of Jesus having a grandmother to spoil Him warm your heart? Don’t all children deserve such grandmothers? And particularly since Jesus shared a birthday and a holiday together…we hope His family … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Most of us in our careers make hundreds of decisions daily without giving much reflection or thought to them…they are more like automatic responses. I remember reading in an educational journal one time that a teacher, on the … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As I ride down the main entrance into my neighborhood I automatically look to see if the “red tree” on the right still has its beautiful scarlet leaves on it! The other day when I saw that it … Continue reading →