Clara Mae

You cannot talk about her without talking about the bedrock of her life.

When she was young, very young, she remembers the church services and bible studies held in their living room. There was always prayer, a seeking of God and a leading of others to know and be saved. John 3:16.

Clara Mae and Grandson Jason

She is very funny in quiet ways. She loves her family, friends and church and they love her, one and all. If you have been around her very much you have been privileged to watch a life well lived. Although she would be the first to say how imperfect one can be, she would also tell you that the Jesus is always with us no matter what. You will find her on any given day reading her Bible, praying, cross-stitching and crossword puzzling!

Small in frame, but oh, so mighty in God. Her pelvis fractured this week. On the way from the hospital emergency room to the rehab, she told the paramedics about her Jesus. I am watching her go through this latest challenge and am in awe of her. She says, "I am believing God for a speedy recovery." Her piercing brown eyes look right through you into the supernatural world, taking hold of tangible faith and bringing it into our world. 



She was born in the state of Wyoming. Soon after the family moved to Long Beach, CA, she remembers being baptized in the Pacific Ocean, just off of the Beaumont Pier as a three year old. She related to Earlene and I how she was so afraid of the water, but wanted to be baptized enough that she overcame that in order to do it. Quite a determined three year old I say. She never forgot it, and she says it came from the fact that her mother Coral and her Aunt Leta held services in their home each night. The atmosphere was saturated with the presence of God and when she was a little older at the ripe old age of six, she recalls, praying in the closet under the stairway to receive the "baptism in the Holy Ghost". . . and guess what, she did.You may like to read more about this element in the Bible, Act chapter 2.

She is a faithful follower and lover of Jesus, a great grandmother, a grandmother, a mom, a prayer warrior, a bold witness. She was the wife of a pastor and her son, became a pastor. She was a Women's Ministries Leader in her local Assemblies of God for years, as well as being pne of the first women grocery clerks during WWII!!!

Today she said, " I've never doubted the Holy Ghost or my salvation. I haven't always been as strong as I wanted to be. I prayed and asked God to help me and He did." Clara's is a life lived in the shadow of His wings. It is the Word of God, stronger than any two edged sword, to the tearing down of strongholds, evidenced in the lives of all those she prays for, that I believe marks her.


She was better today and I hope you will lift her up in prayer.



In His love,
k.t.





John 3:16