Gayle Tabor

You Can’t Write on the Back of a Digital Picture

2014/06/04 Gayle 2

I love photographs – Especially old photographs. They tell a unique and special story. My house is decorated with photos – Some old, some new, some from adventures, or from trips, or from boring everyday life; they run the gamut of subject matter from people to landscapes, from pets to wildlife. A few weeks ago while I visited my mother for Mother’s Day, I unearthed a paper grocery bag of old photographs. I proudly carried the bag into the common area and announced “I’ve found something fun for us to do”. It was something fun to do. We’d take a photo from the bag. Look at it then flip it over to see what was written on the back. Often there was a date, a The rest of the story

I brought home a chair

2014/05/20 Gayle 2

It is with regret that I inform you that after 17 years in exile my desk chair has come home. As you can see the chair is broken which is how it ended up in exile. I took it home, to my parent’s house – which I still considered home in 1997, for my father to repair. It was an unusual trip home for me. I’d just visited the weekend before, for Mother’s Day. But I took a day off on Monday May 19th and spent a long weekend at my folks. I had ever so slightly kissed the rear-end of another vehicle in the weeks before and had acquired a new bumper for my truck. That was The rest of the story

Sermon of Lego Discipleship

2014/05/14 Gayle 4

I was asked to speak on May 4th 2014 at St Paul’s UMC in Carolina Beach. After considerable thought I decided to speak on Lego and our successful Lego Club ministry. I was pleased with this concept and set about to write my words. But the words were not coming. Then on a trip to Lake Junaluska (a 7 hour car trip with four middle school aged kids), Shawn, my minister, suggested, after hearing my story about how getting out of the pew changed my life, that “getting out of the pew” should be my topic. I wasn’t convinced and continued to struggle with Lego words and nothing seemed to fit together into a message. With reluctance, on Friday (yes, the Friday just before May The rest of the story

Not from your Bellybutton or Dryer….Lent

2014/03/05 Gayle 0

I had never in my life considered giving up something for lent. I actually have thought for most of my life (okay, until last week) that it was a silly practice that some weird religions practiced. And lets be honest – the people who always talk about ‘giving up something for lent’ rarely seem like the embodiment of Christ. It is usually some raging alcoholic (or close enough no one knows the difference) who gives up the drink for Lent then spends 40 days whining over Facebook (or twitter). Or your buddy who gives up Facebook (or twitter) but is dying to know ‘what’s happening’ from you always (so much so you want to just give them a ‘like’ sign). However, recently I began to The rest of the story

New Hobby

2014/02/28 Gayle 0

Giving up sugar is quite possibly the hardest thing I have ever attempted. Sugar is associated with so many of life’s delights. Things like birthday cake, or Reece’s peanut butter Easter eggs. Oreos and ice cream. Sweet tea and soft drinks. It’s not a diet coke and a smile, after all. Sodas Don’t get me wrong I enjoy water. I drink a lot of it. But I love a good soft drink on occasion. Which makes my hobby of soda making a perfect fit! For quite some time the idea of brewing beer has appealed to me. I love the idea of creating something that is uniquely my own. However, beer making as a hobby is impracticality for me….I just don’t drink enough to make The rest of the story