May God impart to you the same JOY in “bringing Jesus” to the prisoners at Christmas as He did for me all these years.  You are in my heart & my prayers. I smile as I recall the old, upright piano at CRC. Several keys in the middle octave had NO sound. One inmate who […]

When teaching school, I loved the month of November because it was always a special time of stories and decorations to celebrate “Thanksgiving Holiday”. During the 1990’s, November became the last month of the year I could drive “over the grapevine” before the coming winter fog and snow in California’s Central Valley. I often shared […]

While PRAYING this month, God gave me a fresh revelation of an old truth. May it inspire you to apply it to your own life today. I Timothy 1:18: “This charge I commit unto thee son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before, that thou BY THEM might WAR a good warfare.” Paul reminded […]

God made me a “teacher” before He fulfilled my desire to be a “missionary.”  I taught Primary grades in public school and later taught Piano lessons in Private Schools; but my favorite times were teaching under our Chaplain Sandy at Valley State Prison for Women. I loved the Leadership Class of twelve women serving “Life […]

It is midsummer and I looked in the grocery store for  Concord grapes.  There were none. How I miss those beautiful, purple grapes! They were part of my childhood when people grew their own grapes on small arbors in back yards. I spent many days reading books and enjoying Concord grapes! When God led me […]

When God healed my body in 1982, He changed everything!  He took away fear of death and gave me HOPE of eternal life through a relationship with Jesus. He gave me a PURPOSE for my life! No matter how dreams fell apart, nor how the enemy tried to defeat me, I have “stayed-in-love” with Him […]

I will always think of the month of June as “Father’s Day” celebrations! I’m grateful to have been raised by a godly father who left me precious memories of our times together. When I was a teenager, he had a weekly radio program and I accompanied his singing on the piano and organ. I shared […]

Once upon a time there was a child to be born. The child asked God, “They tell me You are sending me to Earth tomorrow.  How am I going to live there being so small and helpless?” God replied, “Among the angels, I chose one just for you.  Your angel will be waiting for you […]

Stones of Remembrance: 35 Years of Service Just as God told Joshua before they entered Canaan, to place “large stones” for the Israelites to always remember HIS MIRACLES, so I have lovingly kept some “memory stones” from my own life. This month I celebrate thirty-five years in Aglow Prison Ministry by sharing a story from […]

STORIES MY GRANDMOTHER FIRST READ TO ME were from a book titled STREAMS IN THE DESERT. She and the author were friends in the early 1900’s. Mrs. Cowman (the author) was a missionary and Grandma was a “Lady Evangelist.”  May this poetry from her book encourage us TODAY.   ONE DAY WHEN WALKING DOWN THE STREET, […]