Quotes from Lauraine Snelling

Judith watched them drive away

God is my strength and my fortress. I will rejoice in God my Savior.

Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.

upon opening the door. Half of the small

the world. When the men

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God's plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.

Joy is everywhere. You just have to recognize it.

By the grace of God and by keeping busy making life better for others. That is how women always get through the hard parts of life.

things hoped for, the assurance of things unseen." "We must have faith." Kaaren closed the book in her lap. "Ja, we must," Ingeborg acknowledged. But

Thou knowest our hearts, thou knowest our inmost beings, and we thank thee that thou lovest us anyway, for we are thy children and the sheep of thy pasture. Keep us in thy will that we may bring glory and honor to thy name. In Jesus' blessed name we pray. Amen.

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.