Romans 8: 24-25...  (24)For we are saved by HOPE:but HOPE that is seen is not HOPE:for what a man seeth, why doth he yet HOPE for? (25) But if we HOPE for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it?

Ezekiel 36: 26-27...       (26) A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.                             (27) And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

My daughter and I attended a Women's Friendship Dinner at The Church at Pinnacle Hills here in Rogers, AR tonight and heard the most remarkable woman, Mary Kay Beard, speak of her life story and transformation.  As stated in her website...(www.marykaybeard.com)

• As a young woman, Mary Kay Beard let the pain and anger from an abusive childhood drive her into a life of crime and danger. Althought she graduated High School as Valedictorian at the age of 15 and graduated nursing school at 18 became the youngest licensed nurse in the state she was living, by the time she was 27, she was wanted by both federal and state authorities and was the target of a mafia contract. Finally captured, convicted of armed robbery, sentenced to 21 years, and thrown into solitary confinement in an Alabama prison, Mary Kay took stock of her life. And she started reading the Bible. Thus began God's amazing transformation of a broken, bitter criminal into a mighty woman of faith and service
• The Angel Tree ministry Mary Kay launched in 1982 has reached millions of prisoners' children with the love of Christ.