After spending a few days decompressing between the US and a small village in central Scotland, I finally got dressed and went for a little walk – wanted to buy some biscuits (without chocolate–poor me) and stretch my legs. I walked up to the main street and turned right. After a couple of blocks I saw a sign which read “Kirk Wood”. In Scotland, Kirks are churches, of course, and do have yards; I didn’t know they also had woods.Walking down the lane, a man walking a liver-and-white Springer and an older woman walking a Westie, approached. As is my habit, I spoke. That’s all they needed to break into conversation. He introduced himself as John; she is Missrez Mack-knot-ton(her pronunciation.) Oddly, they also introduced their dogs. Mrs. MacNaughton offered to show me the Kirk Woods, so we were off, to our left, down recently hacked and bulldozed 12-foot wide road through the woods. They explained that someone was going to build four houses in here, near the highway.

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I grew up in my Grandfather’s house, for the most part, with short periods of living with Mom and her husbands du jour. My Grandma died within three years of her beloved Walter. I was in my twenties, had a husband and children of my own. We lived in another State, had no money, and I missed her last years as well as her funeral.

If there is someone or something you would like to get off your heart or your shoulders, wherever you carry your burdens, trust me: it is never too late.

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There was a time, not in my extreme youth–although I’m sure I was a “know it all” as an old teenager. But I came to faith in God later than that–having rejected my local Holy-Roller Church’s frequent efforts to save my soul in my youth, while being dangled over Hell like a Weenie.I was never an Athiest, mind  you. Not that I feared God, either, therefore was hanging on for fire insurance. I just didn’t think much about it. Too much wrong in the world that I knew for there to be a Supreme Being who “…so loved the world…”Then one day, God–who didn’t give His or Her name–walked into my life. Within a couple of years, I knew all about God. Had it down. Pat. Ask me anything.

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