Bookmarks or Bookmarkers?

 "However, for clarity, it's beneficial to use "bookmark" when discussing digital contexts and "bookmarker" for physical markers. This differentiation ensures the listener or reader understands the specific context, preventing potential confusion between tangible markers and digital tools. "(askdifference.com)

I made these "bookmarkers" for an upcoming event that I will be co-presenting with a friend. 

 

Can you guess the subject? Breathing.  Breathing and the way we breathe is part of the mainstay of life. During a physical exam medical staff will use a stethoscope to examine heart rate and breathing.

In times of stress or fear breathing can become ragged. Incorrect breathing can cause or exacerbate health problems. 

People have various ways of dealing with stress.  Meditation, scripture reading, exercise, positive thinking, mantras only to name a few. In every instance breathing is necessary. 

In Genesis 2:7  Then the Lord God formed a man[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (biblegateway.com)

Breath Is Life

That's it***

Girlfriend, It's Just a Storm

 

I had the opportunity of attending a church play that had a friend and her daughter as part of the cast. The title Girlfriend, It's Just a Storm was performed at The Star once known as New Rising Star Baptist Church. 

The play concerns four friends who meet for lunch just to catch up after a number of years being apart. Each friend is experiencing  "a storm" in her life. None share their storm out loud in detail to  the others. Later, we see each one of the characters in her own vignette revealing what her life struggle is.

 Will  Jane's *  breast cancer surgery and reconstruction be successful?  Will her fiancé still want to marry her after such a body and life altering experience?

pictured  l.to.r. : Jane, Jane's, fiancé and  mother.

Between scene changes we were treated with humor by, 

                                                      Two Ladies and a Pocketbook

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As a self-employed business woman, Diane is facing bankruptcy due to the pandemic and a backlog in shipment of merchandise.  This predicament finds her plagued by creditors, utilities in arrears and  repossession of her car.

 Since the death of his brother Shirley's  husband  no longer attends church service  or spends time with her, 

                                          Two Ladies and a Pocketbook

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 Mary is a hospital worker whose mother has dementia.  The in-home caregiver's own mother has fallen and she'll be leaving immediately to take care of her. This leaves Mary in a dilemma. Who can she get to care for her mother on such short notice? 

In each scene, unseen by the characters, an angel comes to them with news of hope and trust in God telling them they're only going through a storm in life.

The Outcome

Jane*  is cancer free, her reconstruction  a success and her fiancé  still loves her

Diane receives  a letter stating that a rich relative has died leaving her $650,000.

Mary receives a call from the Home Care Service agency stating that they'll be sending out a Home Health Aide the next day along with improved meds for her mother.

Shirley's husband is visited by the angel. He prays and decides to reunite himself with the church and his wife.

When Shirley returns because she forgot her purse, her husband decides to attend church services with her.

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When the women reunite each one tells the storms they have experienced and how God made a way and saw them through.

 The cast of,  Girlfriend, It's Just a Storm

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Playwright, Mona Dilworth, author of Girlfriend, It's Just a Storm, accepting flowers

* Jane- I was unable to remember the character's name so I named her Jane.

That's it ⛪⛪⛪