Author Archives: Becky Dingle

Dear Reader: A paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement that ends up possessing truthful revelations. Case in point; ” God is the only One to whom we can surrender without losing ourselves. ” After re-reading this statement several times… I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t we all have a window that is our favorite to look out on to see our small piece of the world. One of my favorite Nerburn stories is one he shared from a nursing home many years … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t we all, consciously or even unconsciously, take a moment before we fall asleep each night to think about the day we just lived? Human nature , being what it is, rarely thinks that the day was ” … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The other day, one of the ministers who contributed a story to the compilation published book –Finding Joy in the Journey-Reverend Angela, spoke about a belief she has maintained and felt …since a small child. A hidden place … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Some days … my mind starts grabbing all kinds of information circling around me… snippets of conversation, television segments, passages from a reading and blow them around my mind … as it in a wind storm… but other … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Have you ever experienced an almost split-second car accident, or stumble off a high ridge or deep ravine-and in that amazingly ” elongated ” moment of time-wonder… is this it? And if so… how does this ending leave … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When it comes to understanding the real St Patrick… the folklore stories surrounding his life have to be separated from his real life -( forget those snakes-didn’t happen) BUT his true life is ” stranger than fiction.” Unbelievably … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Today is the 16th of March… the day before St, Patrick’s Day! And instead of getting a hankering for cabbage and corn beef… I went to Publix to buy ingredients for spaghetti-Italian. I made a big batch so … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday was my ” return to normalcy ” day with all my refugee plants and flowers. It took awhile but at this writing ( late yesterday afternoon) everything has been happily returned to familiar terrain -they are “home.” … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As much as the crazy windstorm and hard freeze ( mid-20’s) over the weekend proved challenging, moving plants inside… the end result was most surprising… who survived against the odds and who dared bloom during the freeze? I … Continue reading →