As we all know, time waits for no one and has indeed marched on. So, one day in Spring 2015 I began what I anticipated to be an easy job; selecting, discarding, collating, editing, some rewriting and collecting all on the computer. It wasn't an easy job. Still, I trudged on and the result rests in your hands. This is in effect; Painting with Words-my words. *** I have learned that, despite my family losses, facing my own mortality several times, disappointments and tears, I have been blessed with miracles, namely my children, their father, my loving parents and grandparents. And even though God had other plans for one of my little girls and she was joined in heaven by another of my little ones who arrived too early, this testing of my Faith has strengthened it.