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I enter my 60th year, in good health and in Gods grace, but it wasn’t always so. 

I as a kid, I had only been able to go to church occasionally as mom couldn’t drive till I was in high school, and dad didn’t care to go.  But I went when I could, at an early age to see something different and cause Mom told me to go, and at a later age, my high school years, to be near my aunt and 2 uncles who attended the Methodist Church in Wathena, my home town. 

Well, for whatever reason after that, after I married, I changed to the Baptist Church, and became a Steward.  Later I felt I was called to be a pastor.  I resisted it all I could as the only thing I had ever wanted to do was farm.  Finally after 2 yrs of it, it came to me that Jesus said; “Ok, if that’s what you truly want, then that’s what you can have.  But you’ll never see the joy of difference you would have made in people’s lives.  You’ll never have the joy of seeing souls saved, of people coming back to me, and you’ll never be a successful farmer”. 

He was right in all aspects.  Now, whenever there is a job needing done, I volunteer for it, and I know that Jesus is still with me, giving me wisdom and assurance, safety, and all things I need to survive in this world.  I now play the accompaniment to my church in Okla, I teach Sunday school when needed, and I still farm. 

He never left me, and He said He never would, and His word is good.

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