The Change of Space Returning home presented an entirely new set of challenges for Richard, Kelley, and Paulette. Rooms that were designed and prepared to entertain by Paulette would now sit mostly empty and devoid of the many people she hoped would fill them up with joy and laughter. Where once there might have been […]
The Return Home
The Atrium After five grueling weeks of slow, daily improvement, Paulette’s score on the Glasgow Scale miraculously rose to a 9 meaning she was a viable human being. She could breathe on her own, had spontaneous eye movements, responded to voices, and experienced reflexes to stimulation. She was even able to swallow small sips of […]
The Commitment
In God’s Hands When Richard received the call at Bellevue Baptist and heard of his wife’s accident, his worst thought was that she’d broken her arm or leg. There was no additional detail, but he made enough haste to Regional One Health Medical Center approximately 18 miles away. At the scene, bewildered bystanders moved Paulette […]
Transformed
Monday, June 6th Nothing of great significance occurred in history on Monday, June 6, 2005. Anne Bancroft died. The cleanup of the longest oil/natural gas explosion in history in Crosby, Texas the prior week was on-going. The Supreme Court voted down the legalization of marijuana that day in Federal Court. The American public commemorated the […]
Mercy Is Her Gift
A Preacher’s Wife Richard had been called to the ministry as a young man before his thirteenth birthday. His life became defined by that calling to God. To be a part of his life was to be equally yoked to that calling and to be married to it as if the calling were your own. […]
The Girl Next Door
I Do There are not many who have been married for 53 years, and fewer still who can claim to have lived that long in faithful matrimony and still be in love. Most marriages succumb to societal expectations of what marriage is supposed to be becoming unequally weighted favoring one over the other. Some others […]
A Journey into the Past
The Trip Home For many, a journey home is highly anticipated. Seeing family and friends you’ve missed, a familiar setting where you grew up, the smells from a well-seasoned kitchen invoke memories of your childhood and bring you back to happier times. For others, like myself, the trip is always a bit more. For me, […]
The Journey Begins
Driving Home The drive from Jacksonville to Memphis takes about ten hours and forty minutes, give or take a pit stop or two. For years, I’ve made the trek across the top of Florida to Tallahassee along the pine tree-laden, truck route of Interstate 10. The highway is mostly straight and flat with no more […]