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Sabbath Stories: Friends, by Chaplain Robert Nickell

I visited a patient a few years back who had 7 people in the room visiting her.  I instantly assumed that they were mostly all family…you know, blood.  However, I quickly discovered that they weren’t… Read more…

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Sabbath Stories: Counting Stars, by Chaplain Robert Nickell

It was about 8:45 P.M. the other night when I stepped outside with my 2-year-old daughter in order to look up at the open night sky. We do this together from time to time before I put her to bed for the night. We usually look around for about a minute and talk about the moon, God, or whatever she wants. However, this particular night, as I held her in my arms, she didn’t say anything until I turned to go in the house. Right before I stepped over the threshold my daughter pointed up into the sky and said, “1, 2, 3″… she was counting the stars! Read more…

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Sabbath Stories: Be Blessed, by Chaplain Robert Nickell

I tried to sneak off to work this morning without saying goodbye to my 2 year old daughter.  I was just pulling away from the house when I saw her walking toward me in the dew covered grass with her arms stretched out toward me, crying.  Read more…