3.5- From a small town.

 3.5-

From a small town. Who ever heard of Port Neches, Texas. (Larger than Ladonia or Bugtussle).We we got to travel and teach from Cape Cod to San Diego. She had a desire to teach kindergarten students, even harder God's special students, 4th and 5th graders, even harder prisoners in prison. Training, herding cats, raising a husband, and kids and helping with grandkids. 76 years old and collecting papers to impact prisoners in solitary confinement for 13 months.

Sheila in 1985 started a mail ministry to prisoners. About two months ago I met a man at church who said her devotion articles and cartoons along with Rick Atchey's sermon notes and ministry from Jesus had kept him alive. "Those cartoon were received caused me to laugh when nothing else could." These words to me by someone who been transformed by reading encouraging words in a hard place.

When i told this brother who had walked me to my car from the church building that my wife had helped with these cartoons he had a big smile that came to his face and mine. When I told him she had moved to heaven recently he said he was thankful for her work. I said "So am I."

Thanks to Sandy Wallace and Ray for hosting a 50th anniversary trip and this pic. Good friends for nearly 50 years.

Proverbs 31.

10 An excellent wife, who can find her?
For her worth is far above jewels.
11 The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
13 She looks for wool and linen,
And works with her [g]hands [h]in delight.
14 She is like merchant ships;
She brings her food from afar.
15 And she rises while it is still night
And gives food to her household,
And [i]portions to her attendants.
16 She considers a field and buys it;
From [j]her earnings she plants a vineyard.
17 She surrounds her waist with strength
And makes her arms strong.
18 She senses that her profit is good;
Her lamp does not go out at night.
19 She stretches out her hands to the [k]distaff,
And her [l]hands grasp the spindle.
20 She [m]extends her hand to the poor,
And she stretches out her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22 She makes coverings for herself;
Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.
24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
And [n]supplies belts to the [o]tradesmen.
25 Strength and dignity are her clothing,
And she smiles at the [p]future.
26 She opens her mouth in wisdom,
And the [q]teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
27 She watches over the activities of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:
29 “Many daughters have done nobly,
But you excel them all.”
30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
But a woman who [r]fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
31 Give her the [s]product of her hands,
And let her works praise her in the gates.

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