Pause and Smile for Family

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 2 Comments

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu Have you ever noticed how sometimes everything wants to happen on the same day? That’s the way it was in our family last weekend. My grandson was graduating from high school and my granddaughter was having an engagement party. On the same …

A Day Off from Church and School

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January 26, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It snowed on Saturday. The roads were too slick for us to have church at Mount Pleasant. Dad says it’s better to be safe and cancel church rather than have some of the older members maybe slide off the road and get hurt or sick trying to get their cars …