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I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

The church has given me balance.

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.