COVER STORY
4th grade and now I found myself going down to the Angel Stadium floor to once again give myself away to the God I didn’t know. In learning about prayer for the Crusade, I became intrigued and out of it came the seeds for my next writing experience, In Quest of Prayer. Billy Graham’s books were instrumental in building my faith and when I read World Aflame, I encountered the hidden God again. As the days flew by, I became part of a study group on prayer at a local church which led me to a breakthrough in my search for God. I had a Theophany of Jesus! His bright Spirit of Presence engulfed me in an embrace of warm love and the Bible came alive! In it, I found the Heavenly Father I’d been searching for! This Heavenly Father wasn’t going to abandon me and eventually, He healed me of my anxiety of my own Dad’s departure from the home. This all happened over quite a few years during which time, writing continued in small bits and pieces until one night at 3 A.M., I heard the whisper, ‘Get up and write this down!’ So I did and the angel story Lo & Behold flowed out from my pen! (It later became a children’s musical.) My spirit has been in tune with His Spirit in my dreams and Georgie, a Big Fish Tale followed, and later Put a Tiger in Your Tank. What started as a little girl ‘jotting down in a diary’ became an elderly lady becoming a Grandma Moses of print! My writing has continued to this day. These writings have all been focused on either the search for or the finding of relationship with my Heavenly
Father. During 12 years of lay preaching, Sister Sal Shares Seasonal Sermons was born and notes of encouragement to the Sanctuary Choir became Clef Notes. They have become ways to share with others about the joy of being found and getting the word out to others that God is real and God is love and can be found! As a Christian, I live in the upside-down Kingdom of Service, laying down my preferences in favor of others as an act of worship to the Lord. Let me be crucified with Christ so He can be seen in me! Life has been a great ride with my family of sons, their wives, grandchildren, their wives and grand kids. My sweet Ralph has gone to heaven now and my time has become a Bright/Sadness. I treasure every moment of our 65 years. And who knows? What stories still lie in wait for the whisper, Get up and Write this Down!? This article itself was given to me once again at 3 a.m. ! EC
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