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for my little Bible, which I hid in the hole in my mattress. If you examine
it closely you will see that the pages are worn thin. I have read it from
cover to cover many, many times. I believe that the Word of God kept my
sanity. I read how God spoke to Moses and I wondered if God spoke to
people these days? If there really was a God then I wanted to know and my
search for God started. There is a verse in the Bible in Jeremiah
29:13 which says: And you shall seek me and find me when you
search for me with all your heart.

Tonight, before I came up here
to speak, feeling nervous, I
went into the ladies’ rest room
and there on the bench were
these flowers! God knew I had
on my heart to read this to you
and there was this arrangement
of lilies! When I was a little
girl I read something in my
Bible that touched my heart
right at a time when I was feel-
ing so desolate, ugly, worth-
less, forsaken and alone and
my clothes, hair and appearance embarrassed me. These words in the
Bible seemed to jump right out of the page and speak into my life bringing
tears to my eyes: Luke 12: 27-28 “Consider how the lilies grow. They
do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his
splen-dour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes
the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is
thrown into the fire, how much more will He clothe you, O you
of little faith! If He cares so much for the lilies of the field
then how much more does

He care about you? It was the first time that a
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