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PROGRAM D-7122

I’m sharing some stories from women who have been encouraged and helped through our ministry.  We’re celebrating changed lives, lives that have been touched and changed through God’s Word as it has gone out over the radio for thirty years.  Here’s what a friend from Pennsylvania recently wrote:

I have been working at the same plant and faithfully have been listening to Mary on my way to work every work-day for the last seven years or so.  I felt like EVERYTHING Mary spoke of addressed the tough challenges I face at work every day!  For example, like working with an impossible woman for the last 21 years, but with Mary’s advice through the word of God, I have been strengthened to press on every day and treat this woman with the love of Christ. 

So many times I have failed, but Mary always covered that part of being a working woman, too.  I remember she once confessed one of her faults as “people think I am nicer than I really am.”   I can relate to that—days when I am struggling to get along with other work people—my thoughts towards them are not always what my smile is showing.  Anyway, she covered so many of the hurdles that I have faced and deal with because she strengthened me right before I walked into that locker room and faced, what seemed like for so long, the impossible co-worker.  The Christian Working Woman gave me the spiritual food I needed every morning to start my work day out correctly.

I share these testimonies with you not to celebrate me or this ministry, but to point out the power of God’s Word.  All I’ve done these thirty years is share from my own heart and life how relevant God’s Word is to our everyday living, and how really important it is for us to hide God’s Word in our hearts so that we can live it out in the tough places of our lives.

I can’t tell you how many people have shared similar stories to this one—stories of having to deal with very difficult co-workers or managers.  Getting along with people is always the number one challenge of life, isn’t it?  But this friend has been able to face a challenging co-worker and treat her with the love of Christ because of what she heard as I shared God’s truth.  It’s truth that sets us free, and my passion is to continue sharing God’s truth that will equip and encourage others to be like Jesus on their jobs.