Oak Trees Chapel -“Perfectly -Imperfect “

12/12/2020

12/12/2020

When my husband was busy with sawing , and hammering , I was busy with gluing marbles , glass , plates , and other sentimental things to the windows that would be installed in the chapel . My husband had no blueprint or floor-plan for the building this chapel . I had never done anything with windows . I love crafting , but had never done anything to windows . We both admitted that we had a little anxiety about the work we had undertaken, so we just prayed that the chapel above all would be pleasing to God .

I remember the first prayer that I prayed in the chapel . The frame was the only thing that was up . When you went inside you were met with sky , and trees when you looked up . I received a call from my sister that our nephew had died . Devastating news . I went to the chapel and turned my face to the sky , and cried . Then I prayed . We prayed there all the while we working on it .

Next : My hardest , and most rewarding window to do . Window # 5

08/12/2020

When we decided to go forward with building Oak Trees Chapel we knew we wanted it to be strong , and sturdy . We wanted it to be pleasing to look at inside ,
and outside , yet remain simplistic in its beauty . We didn’t want to spend a lot of money buying new materials to build it .

We had scrap metal siding left over from my husband building two out buildings for storage . We had windows that he bought from Home Depot about 25 years ago . The store was moving to a new location and was liquidating a lot of their stock . I had seen some windows that had been done with marbles , and glass for a stained glass effect . I told my husband that I would like to do that for the chapel . A total of six windows . Then my mind went went ballistic with design ideas !

My husband kept the hammer , and saws busy .
I was deep into marbles , glass and glue .

To be continued

06/12/2020

This is a little Chapel that my husband built for me . When I saw the little Chapel in Yosemite National Park 44 years ago , I have wished for one of my own . Just a little place to pray, meditate , and reflect .

06/12/2020

This is the story of our little chapel became a realization of my dream from 44 years ago after I saw the Yosemite Chapel in Yosemite National Park in California . I was awestruck by its simplistic beauty . I told my husband that I wanted a little chapel to meditate , and pray in . A quiet solitude tucked away among our Oak Trees .

I never let go of my dream . I just prayed that it would happen . In the meantime our lives were busy raising our son , and daughter . I was also going to UTD , Dallas a sister university to UTA in Austin . Plus we were involved with the kids school activities. Lots of band , and football involvement .

Then I graduated receiving my certification and degree in Special Education , and Psychology . Then as fast as a whirlwind our kids graduated and went to college . I guess you could say life got in the way of my dream .

Then came weddings , and grandchildren. Our oldest granddaughter has Aspergers Syndrome , on the Autism Spectrum . I was her aide in her school years . Finally , two years ago my husband retired from Pharmacy after 54 years of service . Then .......

We decided to build our chapel . My husband picked a clearing among our Oak Trees on our property . We wanted the chapel to set back from the road and away from our house so it would not anything to detract from it . We had no architectural plans , or floor plans . My husband smoothed the land the chapel , then he started building ! We decided that all of the materials to be used in building this chapel would be of reclaimed materials . We also had scrap metal , and reclaimed lumber .

And so it began ......