Seventeen years ago today, I was there when my Daddy took his last earthly breath. We knew the end was near so it was no surprise. I actually prayed fervently that God would be merciful with my Daddy and not allow him to linger suffering. God answered my prayer and allowed him to die peacefully …
Decisions & Actions
Today is a day of transparency. I write these posts about hope, dreams, scars, and happiness and find solace in the words. But even the Bible says that faith without action is dead. Faith without being able to put that faith into practice isn't really faith at all. It's just pretty words on paper that …
How Do You Heal a Broken Heart?
This world is full of so many things that break our hearts. It can be something big or something little, but the pain is almost the same. The biggest thing with a broken heart is how long it can persist. The pain will come in waves and there will be days that are really good. …
Scars
In 2010, I was getting ready for work when I went to open my shower door and literally heard my finger break. At first, I questioned what had just happened because it seemed highly improbable that my finger could have broken by just moving a shower door. But, I knew something wasn't right because for …
The Fear That Shapes Us
On the last, rainy day before leaving the beach, I ventured out and did a little bit of shopping. The clouds weren't especially ominous but the weather forecast predicted heavy bands of rain to make their way through the area. In one of the stores, I saw three employees huddled together discussing the weather prediction. …
Music Soothes the Savage Beast
Creative minds need creative outlets. I can't sing but I love listening to music and occasionally singing along, even if it sounds like a rabid goat caught in an electric fence. I often listen to music while I write because each song has an accompanying emotion that helps me channel the right emotion to put …
Good Friends
As an only child who grew up out in the country, I only had a handful of friends while growing up. We didn’t have any neighbors with kids my age. Our neighbor across the street had a granddaughter who would come visit every now and then but for the most part it was me and …
The Beauty in the Sky
Last evening I went down to the water and sat my chair in the sand. I pulled out my phone and my digital camera. I was torn between watching the clouds and evening sun dance in the sky or capture it with my cameras. I chose to do a little bit of both, putting the …
Haunted Houses & BBQ
Y’all….Y’ALL. I am at the beach for a week of R&R with the girls. The house we are staying in is right on the beach but it’s an older house in the middle of nowhere Florida. The house was probably one of the first ones to be built on this stretch of beach. It’s nothing …
Hellcat Women
My grandmother was one of ten children growing up in the early 1900's. (That makes me sound awful old but I'm just an old soul.) Her mother died when she was really young but before she died, she made their older brother, Whit, promise to keep the family together. He stayed single and helped his …
Messpot Diaries 