The Storyteller | Mary Vee

Nearly 500 people sat in the church A good 200 more in other rooms throughout the building. There were no windows in this modern facility, as is the custom for designs today. Not even stained glassed windows along the side. There was one fax stained glassed window with back lighting to appear like outside light shine through.  All was as it had been.  The people sang.  Scriptures read. Then during the prayer the power went out. It was a weird sensation, because although eyes remained closed, and the pastor continued to pray, a deep awareness enveloped the people.  After the amen, those who had their phone handy whipped them out and, like at a concerts, whipped on the flashlight, lighting the room. Two took their flashlight to the pianist and lit her music. The worship never stopped. No one except the mother with the crying baby left. The sound man appeared minutes later with a dusty, old battery-operated microphone and gave i...

The winner of yesterday's drawing for Borders of the Heart is..scroll to end of this post . Hurricane Hazel surprised many people on October 15, 1954. She sped west across the Atlantic, slamming into Grenada, fueled up and with new energy threw her winds at Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico destroying crops and lives. This wayward hurricane made a sharp turn up the eastern coast of the United States, stopping off at the Carolinas and Virginia before skipping up to Ontario. Her untamed winds hurt many people both directly and indirectly. With today's technology, we receive warnings on our cell phones. My daughter, who lives in a storm area told me her cell phone company sent her an alert to get to higher ground due to floods. Sometimes unusual circumstances prevent an escape or a homestead is severely damaged/destroyed. I've never experienced a hurricane in any way. Quite truthfully I would not be able to include the situation in a book because I wouldn't know...

Scroll to the bottom for the winner of last Friday's book giveaway:  The Shunning, by Beverly Lewis Have you ever lost power in your home or gone for a hike and run out of water? I have, too. Today we celebrate the Hoover Dam. On October 9,  in 1936, a switch opened the doors allowing water to flow over the Hoover Dam for the first time.  Generators sprang to life, electrical power flowed to residents in the west improving quality of life and providing a way for new businesses. Producing electricity for those in the west is often the focused news about the Hoover Dam. But, the lesser know primary reason for the dam was to provide water to needy desert regions in the west.  Los Angeles residents and other communities in the west struggled for years to find adequate water. The desert area took many lives, human, animal, and plant. One could live without electricity, but they could not live without fresh water. And yet, not far aw...