Life’s Transitions and Occasions

As your Celebrant, as your Officiate, as your Chaplain I will help you to create a unique, meaningful, personalized ceremony that reflects YOUR beleifs and sentiments. A service for - civil or religious, interfaith or multicultural that will be YOUR ceremony, Your Way. And I will perform your ceremony with heartfelt joy.

Celebrations and Special Occasions

For YOUR ceremony, Your way: All cultures, preferences, backgrounds and lifestyles will be honored.
A ceremony is a sacred space in our lives.
We come together with friends and family for a special experience.
Woven into these experiences is the love we have for each other

You may wish to have a ceremony for many of life’s transitions.
* Wedding
* Hand Blessing
* House Blessing (dedicate your new home)
*Boat Blessing (naming your boat)
*Citizenship Celebrations
*Graduation
*Coming of Age
*Dedicate (Blessings) your new business
*Entry into Adolescence
*Blessing of Pets
*Water Blessing
*Ho’oponopono
*Divorce Ceremony
*Rituals to Acknowledge Separation
*Naming Ceremony
*Adoption Ceremony
*Memorial to mark an anniversary of a departed loved one
*Memorial to an angel baby
*Other significant anniversaries.

Hello, I am Grace Michelle Haggart. I am a small resort owner in Lakeview Arkansas, located near Bull Shoals Lake and the White River.I am also a massage therapist, which is also called a Professional Wellness Facilitator. My practice is called “Hands of Blessing”.

Chaplain Grace Michelle

During my life journey I have also studied many religions and belief systems.  During this journey I chose to go to school and become a Chaplain.
A chaplain is not a minister who says “You must be on my bus to get to heaven.”
A chaplain is a person who walks beside you during times of life’s transitions.

Chaplain Ministry Is….
Listening, when you’d rather fix the problem.
Searching for the joy, when it’s easier to say “it’s not fair.”
Helping, when you feel like you’re the one that needs the help.
Telling God, “use me,” when you’d rather ask to be rescued.
Encouraging, even when you don’t understand God’s reasoning.
Hugging when it feels awkward.
Saying, “let’s pray right now,” instead of “I’ll pray for you.”
Serving, when you doubt you have anything left to give.
Comforting, by being the flicker of light in others’ dark caverns.
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“Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10

I see the gifts, talents, experiences that have occurred and developed during my travels and created a person suited to this vocation. The path of my life, a journey in circles, the bits and pieces, the love of creativity and fun, traveling, growth in prayer, seeking justice, a love of learning, all are inseparable.

A personal background in attending a variety of churches, having friends of different faith backgrounds, volunteering in homeless shelters and soup kitchens or living in a co-op or a tent. God has used every experience to lead me into a vocation to serve others. All the twists and turns and by-ways have created a journey toward God. I feel that my varied past will enable me to communicate with a wide variety of people and interact in many situations. I believe that the ministry of being a Chaplain is one that best supports my gifts and calling.

 Life is not a clear straight path, it is more like steppingstones that enable us to change course and direction and still stay on the God given path.  Life is a mystery that God has given to us.
With the twists and turns my own life has taken I am able to listen to the person, to enable them to be able to speak in confidence without being judged, to engage in the important art of having a conversation.
I have learned that listening to someone can be a greater service than speaking. Many people are looking for an ear that will listen to them without judgment or agenda, to honor their thoughts and feelings.

To listen to a person can empower them to talk about what is truly important in their lives and in their relationship with God.  Through my Chaplin schooling I have practiced how to pay attention and affirm what is said and how to ask questions to clarify a person’s thoughts and emotions. To use empathy and compassion to create a space for the client to have an honest conversation.  I have come to learn that the “whole person’ must be cared for, and no one aspect of the person can be treated in isolation. The Chaplain cares for the emotional, spiritual and mental well being of the person as others care for the physical. And yet sometimes the Chaplain is the person to get a glass of water for the patient.

It is important for you to be accepted wherever you are on their Spiritual Journey. I as a Chaplain I may offer prayer, a blessing, anointing of oil, Bible or other sacred text reading as will offer you hope, to help you my client have your spiritual needs met. 

 Please contact me for a fee schedule.