Marian Elsie Blake was a woman way ahead of her times. She wrote poetry her entire life for her children, funerals, births, church sermons, and many other life events. But, her humble nature meant that she never published any of it. After her death in 2007, we found more than 100 poems around her house. They were in her own handwriting, typewritten on assorted sheets of paper, written in her well loved Bible, and stashed in multiple places around her house. A House Inside of Me is the first publication of her poems, which she recited frequently for those who knew her. Her poetry gives us hope...