I am happily married, for the second time, to a wonderful man who is my “soul mate.”  We have three sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren between the two of us.  I have worked at the same job for the past 41 years and am looking forward to retiring in a year or so. (God willing.)

 I became a Christian when I was 19 years old, but over the years had gotten away from the Lord.  I went to church, but not on a regular basis and I didn’t have God as number one in my life.  Back in the latter part of 2000, the business in which I work began to undergo some major changes and I was simply unable to cope with it. I stayed despondent and upset most of the time. I went to the doctor and he ran test after test, but they could not find anything physically wrong with me.  Finally in August of 2001, I had gotten to the point that I could not continue as I had been going and I humbly got down on my knees and prayed to God for help. I prayed that He would give me the strength to cope with all the changes at work, but most of all, I prayed that He would forgive me for my sins and especially for my sin of falling away from Him. I am living proof of God’s wonderful mercy and grace because He lovingly welcomed me back into His family and forgave me all my sins.

 A couple of months later, I was sitting out on my back porch before dawn looking at the moon and the millions of stars, and marveling at all the beauty God had created.  Words suddenly filled my head and I got up and went to my computer and wrote my first poem “My Light at Dawn”.  Since then, I have written many poems about God’s love for us and His grace and mercy.  When I can’t think of what I want to say, I simply go sit outside and pray that God will give me the words, and He does.

 I started my web site as an avenue of sharing what God has done for me. My hope is that someone who might not know Jesus as his or her personal Savior might come to accept Him as a result of my sharing what He has done for me and what He can and will do for them.  God also brought into my life a wonderful woman, Ruth Ann Mahaffey, who does all of my web pages and graphics.  Because of her hard work and her loving kindness to me, I have been able to make my poems available to others.

 God loves and cares for each of us.  His love for mankind is so great that He sacrificed His Son, Jesus, for our sins.  We, as sinners, deserved to die on that cross, but Jesus took our place and bore our sins, and through the spilling of His blood, all our sins were blotted out.  Through His death and resurrection, we sinners now have the opportunity of being reconciled to a Holy God.  Jesus lives!  You, too, can live eternally with Him, and all you have to do is accept Him as your personal Savior. Ask Him into your heart today, because tomorrow is not guaranteed and life is but a breath in the eons of time.