I was born in New Brunswick, Canada, I went to Sunday School in a Baptist Church until I was 18 and left home to work in Fredericton, N.B. At age 16 I got baptized in the baptist church I was attending, I remember the Lords presence for about a year, I did not have any christian friends or people around me who loved the Lord and I started backslidding, I left home at age 19 and did attend church for a few yrs. after that but it never meant anything to me at all. I started running to fortune tellers and seeking to know my future, I did not know it was dangerous at that time, I ended up in some trouble with bad spirits and I promised God I would not ever again have my fortune read or anything of the sort if He would help me.. Years went by and I met a man in N.B. who had accepted a job out West and he came out in December that year and I came out in April the next year and we got married that June. My husband did not attend church or speak of the Lord at all. I stopped going to church at that time, even though I insisted we get married in a Baptist church..
Years went by and I had a daughter, Karrie Lee, she became my joy, my husband and I were very different in our personalities and things were not turning out the way I thought they would. I found myself very homesick for all my family, they were 3,000 miles away, we were living at isolated ranger stations and I knew very few people. I started penpalling around this time and God blessed me with wonderful penpals, many who were christians. I started seeking God for the truth, I was upset over the world conditions and I did not want to have more children unless I knew there was a purpose behind it all. My life started going downhill and I was lonely all the time, confused. I started calling on the Lord to tell me if He was real or not, I wanted to know Him. A few months after I prayed for this, God sent a rangers wife down to see me who had been saved a few months, I did not know this at the time, she spent the weekend with us and witnessed to me about the Lord, we were alone in my house and I sensed a presence which I now know was the Lord, but I was not ready. She left and said she would send me some books to read, I remember telling my husband and we both laughed, we thought she was a religious fanatic. A few weeks later those books came, our mail was picked up 30 miles away, and I remember it was a Monday and I never went to town on a Monday but that day God had it planned.. I felt led to go in and get my mail, my husband went next door to play cards that night and I was alone, I got the books out and I remember reading one booklet she sent me, it was about salvation, when I came to the words "Rev.3.20 "Here I am, I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me". At the moment I read that verse, the letters became very large and I knew something was happening, I started crying and I ran in the bathroom and looked in the mirror, my whole face was shining with a glow around it. That is the night I got born again. I remember having my old sunday school bible packed somewhere with me, I prayed that night and asked God to help me find it and He immediately showed me where that little bible was, so I started reading His Word, I hid everything from my husband for months but eventually told him what happened, he seemed to know something had taken place and he never tried to stop me from believing like I did. I fought going to church for about a year, I told the Lord I was not going to go to church, but eventually I wanted to go, we were living in isolated areas but God always provided christians and fellowship for me. I joined bible studies and had wonderful fellowship. The Lord used a lot of people in my life, I ended up attending a penacostal church, it was a small group and there were some wonderful prayer times in that group.
Things did not go well in my marriage and I did end up having one more child, I prayed and asked God if I should have another child and he gave me a vision, I saw my son, he was sitting on someone's knee, I saw a white gown and no face, this child looked a lot like my daughter, he was about l-2 yrs. of age in the vision, so I went ahead and had my child, Gregory Thomas. The son I had was the same child I saw in that vision before I was even pregnant. God has done some awesome things in my life, my faith is strong because of all I went thru and all the experiences I had with Him.
I was depressed for years over the state my marriage was in, we moved a lot and I had to start all over each place we went. I was not a country girl and we were always living in isolated areas, finally my husband bought a house in the city and he travelled back and forth for l0 years until his death from a heart attack. I had many hard years raising my childlren, things were never easy, my daughter rebelled and gave me a very difficult time, she drank heavily for yrs. Then at 19 yrs. of age she married a British soldier and moved to England and Germany, I thought I would die, I was so dependent upon her and all her friends coming and going. It looked like the end of the world to me, my son was 10 yrs. old., all my family were 3,000 miles away and the last thing I wanted was for my daughter to live overseas, have children that I would not be able to see, etc. But I made up my mind to trust God in this situation, instead of fussing and fretting I turned it over to Him, He gave me a promise that she would return to Canada. During the time she lived overseas she made lots of trips back and forth, it was not difficult at all. Now she is getting her divorce and has lived with me over 2 yrs. She had a son, born in England and my son and I were priviledged to attend his birth, the highlight of my life.
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