RAYS OF SUNSHINE IN THE DARKNESS

Changing Focus

I am committed to "focusing" on my positive relationships which have kept me living in God's Spirit while simultaneously continuing to seek to open my heart, soul, mind and spirit to hearing, validating, sharing what God grants me - even when it is pain... 

“Looking back the long years o’er…”

Here is a picture or two or three of people through whom God's love kept me in some of the hardest years:

Year of Physical Violation, Dec. 1968 - August 1969

My 3rd year, Fairbanks/Dawson City 

Yukon Territory, Canada.  

My beloved rescuer.  Laura.  

Laura phoned RJI the summer of 1969 to let him know, “If you don’t send her “Out” of Alaska, your testimony will become affected.”  I was sent out stat.

(The earlier record with details is in “My Story” ewestogether.com)

73 year old Hazel.  She had been changed from Montana to Washington at 70 years of age, and was so thankful!!

She trusted me!!  

She sent me to stay alone with the grieving parents and family when their 11 year old twin girl died from an influenza.  We witnessed another pair of parents decide whether or not to donate their dying teenage son’s for organ donation - a new concept back in those years.  Anguished experiences where I was a “partner” with this loving, empathic, heart loving care through Hazel.

Oh how I loved to hear my companion Gay preach the gospel -

Depth in Simplicity personified.

Purity.

Loving care of the sheep.

We got to be a part of commencing the Spanish speaking work in Washington state because we had a house full of Latinos attending our Friday meetings arranged for them in one of their homes.

Following one gospel meeting, one of the Mexican women asked me, in English, “Do you like cake?”

 I was concentrating so hard on trying to understand Spanish, I didn’t know she was speaking English and replied, “No entiendo.”

She repeated her question THREE times.

Finally, Gay quietly said,

 “She’s speaking in English!”

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