A failed suicide attempt at age eight left Ingrid with a broken arm but a healing heart. "I didn't die that day, but I wanted to. My mother had tried to sell me again," declares Ingrid Reeves, recalling her dark, desperate youth as the only white child in a mixed-race family. Ingrid lived to triumph over hate, hardship and prejudice. As a wife and mother, the contemporary pioneer woman lived without electricity for twelve years, carving out a Circle of Love sanctuary on a remote mountain in the California wilderness. For thirty years, she wore a hard hat, bravely working in a danger zone by...

This anthology is a compilation of select invocations and songs created by Lynn Rose Curtin while Chaplain of the Jacksonville, Florida, Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, Inc., who have added their own expressions of art, poetry, literature and photographic images to this volume. The group hopes that these gifts will lift the hearts of all those who read these pages, and pray that they will inspire all those who need comfort and healing.