All Roads Lead To Dacusville, Even From Canada

     Around these parts you don't hear sayings such as... 

"Oh Me Nerves" 

"I don't know if I'm Hit or Stunned" 

"Lard Tunderin, Bye" 

"How's she going Bye?"  

"Holy Ole Bald Headed Moses" 

"Good Dear Good" 

"J'eet yet? No Djou? No T'wirly"

   

Canada  Money

      However, if you visited Canada, this is what you would hear.  Also in Canada,  their dollar coin is called a Loonie and they use a two dollar coin called a Toonie.  They are taxed 15% on everything which is high to us but, they do have great health insurance.  They pay $5.50 for gas, and they drink hot tea; no Starbucks and no iced tea.  Just recently they changed from paper bills to plastic bills.  Don't wash and dry your money in your pant's pockets; it might just melt.  It's almost deer season here, try hunting 1600 lb. moose in Canada. Do you enjoy varieties of food? Here, we have ten varieties of peanut butter, well there they may only have 2 or 3.  If you enjoy shopping for clothes, you need to have plenty of Loonie and Toonie because in Canada clothes are very expensive. Things may be different in Canada, but Jimmy Shelton found something there that he loved, and brought her back to Dacusville.

     Jimmy Shelton is a hometown native from our community, he served in the Navy.  While in the Navy, he met his wife Ann from Nova Scotia, Canada. Ann was part of the local Army Reserves.  In 1956 Ann moved from Canada to our little town of Dacusville.  Ann comes from a large family with 4 brothers and 4 sisters.  Three of the four sisters followed Ann from Canada; Hazel aka "Gabby", Peggy, and Lorraine aka "The Baby".  Hazel and Lorraine have moved back to Canada, they live there with their families and with Jean; their oldest sister. Peggy and Ann stayed here in Dacusville, and we are a blessed community to have them and their families to be a part of us.  

     This family doesn't let distance keep them from one another, on every special occasion they get together. Hazel and Lorraine were down the past two weeks to celebrate Ann's grandson, Jay Hitt's wedding. Jean couldn't make the trip because of health reasons.  While they were here, they traveled to the "Isle of Palms" in Charleston.  They shopped, shopped, and shopped.  They loved going to Wendy's to eat, they went to the Jockey Lot, and visited with family members.

"We are 5 sisters

5 sisters are we

I love each of you, and

I know you love me.

We're not always together, 

life sometimes keeps us apart.

But we're never separated,

we are in each others heart."

     This poem was written by Hazel, it was given to each sister along with this plaque.

 
 What can we learn from these sisters?

     The distance from their home in Canada to Dacusville is a 36 hour drive, and many times they have traveled it.  They make every effort to be with one another, to continue sharing life together no matter the distance between them, because they love one another. You can be in a room with them for just a few minutes and you will experience the love they have for each other.

     The distance from Canada to Dacusville is a long one, but they travel it because of who they get to see at the end of the road.

From left to right: Hazel, Ann, Peggy, and Lorraine

Love For Another...

     Jesus walked a Road, the Via Dolorosa "Way of Sorrows" because of His Love for Us.  It was a Road that you would not have wanted to travel, but he did it because at the end of it, was You and Me.

"Down the Via Dolorosa

Called the Way of Suffering

Like a Lamb came the Messiah, Christ The King

But He chose to walk that Road out of His love for You and Me

Down the Via Dolorosa, All the way to Calvary"  

Sandi Patti, Via Dolorosa  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvyuCaL9pc
     

Jesus on the Via Dolorosa, the Road to Calvary
Photo by simplyquiet.blogspot.com

     

   "Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the Road that leads to destruction, and many enter  through it. But small is the gate and narrow the Road that leads to life, and only a few find it."-Matthew 7: 13-14

Be part of the few that find the Road, that leads to life.