God Spoke, I Wrote

About the Book

It was at this new church, Lakeside Outreach Ministries that my life really took a turn. I had so many times since my son passed, kept asking God the question, “why”? I found my answer here. I met so many wonderful people who had so much pain and grief and illnesses in their lives, but, they never lost their faith in God. I began to write about my Pastor, Pastor Kenny Griffin and his church and his people, and when I did, I seen their pain, I felt their suffering. I cannot explain, but, people, even strangers began asking me to write about their loved one who had departed, and then come back to tell me how much the poem had meant to them. This had become my calling, this is what God wanted me to do, and as it became more and more widespread, my involvement with Jesus became more and more, the words were coming so fast, the insight I was seeing, only God knew what was happening to me. I would be nothing, nor would there be any written poetry without God, for when I sit down to write, I say a prayer to God, saying, “God, please give me the words to write, and He always would. That is why I call my book of poetry, GOD SPOKE/I WROTE.

About the Author

I was born in Campton, Kentucky in 1936. The second of ten children. I grew up in and graduated in a little town called Camden, Ohio. I graduated in 1955 and I had dreams of being a writer, but unable to go to college, I entered the Navy. I met my husband to be there and got married. We have been married for 47 years. We had four children, three sons and one daughter. We also have nine grandchildren. When my son passed suddenly, I got caught up in writing poetry as a way of easing my pain.