Renee Hawkley In Joy!

"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees." Kahlil Gibran My husband, Dan, penned this quote in a letter to me and our two young children on Christmas, 25 December 1969 while serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Force in Taiwan during the Viet Nam War, then added a bit of his own wisdom: ". . . To best understand God, we should learn best of all the natural beauty in which He has clothed the earth, for there is it easiest to discern that God is a God of beauty and love, of law and order, and that man is His primary concern. I love you ~ see you in my dreams ~ and as much as possible in between them. All my love, Dan" Yup. That was my husband, Dan Hawkley, at age ...

I left a Hershey bar in the car on a hot day, and it melted. When I held the package up by its end, I could tell All the magnificent chocolate was oozing to the bottom. I was about to toss it into the garbage when, in a heartbeat, I decided to lay the package out flat in the refrigerator. After awhile, I peeked in and opened it up. And the chocolate had turned back into a Hershey bar! Only the rectangles with "Hershey's" were missing. Then the Hershey bar melted again -- in my mouth. And I loved that Hershey bar as I had imagined I would -- Maybe even more than Hershey bars with fancy rectangles. Because I had come so close to losing the "real thing" Just because the packaging I had expected was missing. But then, in just a second's breath . . . The Hershey bar and I rescued each other! Copyright by Renee Hawkley