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(gerdasmitart) Psalm 59:15 “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you and thou shall glorify me.” Dear Reader: Good Friday is definitely a day filled with paradoxes. Trouble and human suffering take center stage but do … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I have realized that with Matt’s story and Reverend Kenneth Brown’s story, as well as Ambika’s today, what connects all three is the amazing “anchor” of hope that manifest itself in a little chapel in the North Carolina … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: From New Zealand to Gadsden, Alabama, St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope once again brings hope and faith to another pilgrim -named Reverend Kenneth Brown… by providing him the guidance he needed to make a life-altering decision. I have … Continue reading →

(Painting by Gerda Smit) Dear Reader: Since Easter is all about hope and its resurrection in all of us, through the sacrifice of Christ, I thought for the next few days that I would share how St. Jude’s Chapel of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I think all of us were glad to see a little rain fall yesterday morning…to help wash some of the pollen off our roofs, cars, steps, and everything else imaginable….including us. Honey sent me two photos (from yesterday) … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Last year I was so excited about this time of the spring season (It’s officially spring right now!) with my “Passion Vine” blooming away during Holy Week. I read all kinds of ideas and suggestions how the vine got … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Rebecca….the English derivative of the Biblical name Rebekah means literally “secured.” For a person who has spent far too much of her life seeking “security” here I discover I have been “secured” the whole time. Most of us … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday, the idea for the “body and soul’ relationships we discussed in the blog came from a chance meeting of turning the television station to PBS, which was showing short video clips of Wayne Dyer’s most popular messages. … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: *Pardon the last minute insert but at 3:56 yesterday afternoon the number of views rolled over to 50,000. This blog reminds me of the tortoise and the hare….some bloggers have picked up that number in a few hours … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: These days I don’t look on life as a race…in fact I am quite content to just “meander” along its paths. I am in no hurry to reach the finish line….there are still “mountains to move” and oh … Continue reading →