You may have read some of my personal experiences in Home Street Home ... A Love I Could Not Deny and Choice Has a Name. Jesus has carried me through some very dark and difficult times, including, most recently, cancer in both me and my son. God has been faithful. I've lived in 53 places, in seven different states -- eight, if you include the state of confusion! Of all these, I can honestly say that the worst place to be ... is out of the will of God!
Education: I went from high school to Bible school, where I lived six years (never finished my first year of classes because I had to work: a year in a shoe factory, a year as a cashier in the dime store, a year washing dishes, etc.). In my late 30s, I desired to learn more about journalism and went to college three years but, again, did not graduate. I love to read, and consider every life experience a lesson.
Family: I come from a Roman Catholic family of 9. Divorced since my son, now 21, was in diapers, I personally know the challenge of single parenting.
Hobbies: My passion is to write. I also enjoy reading, singing and talking about the love of my life: JESUS!
Employment: Usually employed as a word processor or legal secretary, but always writing on the side..
Pro-life: You may recall the nationally publicized story, several years ago, about a newsroom secretary fired from The Milwaukee Journal (now Journal Sentinel) for her pro-life position. Well, that was me. An attorney with the Rutherford Institute represented me and we settled out of court. The media's bias had been exposed; my point was made.
This is the condensed version of a very complicated life. Its many twists and turns, over mountains and through valleys, have only caused me to draw nearer to the Source, the Fountain of living waters ... Jesus, the Lover of my soul!.
Everything on my site is the product of my own personal study the past 30 years. Alone most of the time, I've lived a very secluded life. (I had to do something with my time!) The verses for each topic seemed to fit so neatly into an outline, I began sharing them with others, got them copyrighted and assembled into book format, etc. Back in the 70s I lent the rights to the president of a bible school. After a few years, that contract ended and I began offering them on my own. When I learned how to do web pages, I began offering them online. I haven't presented them to a publisher because I know their markup (greed) would put the price out of range for many. Jesus came "to preach good tidings to the poor..."!
I gave my life to Jesus in 1970, at age 16. I attend a nondenominational, Spirit-filled, Bible-believing Christian church. (Phew! That was a mouthful!) Denominations are manmade. No justification for such divisions can be found anywhere in the New Testament. Jesus prayed "that they all may be one." Paul scolded the Corinthians for claiming, "I am of Paul," "I am of Apollos," etc.
I have been divorced for many years. I believe someday the Lord will bring a godly man into my life. I don't like being alone, but I know I'd never have devoted so much time to writing all these years if I had someone else to give my attention to.
My son is now an adult. Some experiences of his childhood -- and my challenge as a single-parent, caring for him alone since he was an infant -- are recorded in Faith of a Little Child, Frustrations of a Single Parent, Choice Has a Name, Home Street Home etc. The greatest challenge came, however, when he was diagnosed with cancer. Then, a couple years later, I was, too. Currently we are both doing well, thanks to the mercy of God and praying believers.
I have kept the cost of these materials low so that anyone, whatever their financial status, can afford them. To order, print out the order blank at www.dianedew.com/order.htm and mail with a check or money order.
This web site has borne much fruit. Souls have been saved, families reunited, hearts healed. Backsliders have returned to their first love after reading 'The Backslider in Heart'. The lonely and discouraged have written me, in tears, they say, after finding comfort in the promises of God through Loneliness: A Study in the Scriptures (one of the first pages uploaded to this site, with my testimony). God gets all the glory, though, because I know it has not been my doing. Not along ago I didn't know the first thing about making a web page.
In the beginning (sounds scriptural, doesn't it?), everything was without form and void: There were no graphics. Glenn, an onliner I've never even met (and who has since "disappeared"), explained how to add graphics in AOL Press. A free program you can download from AOL, it has its limitations. But it served me well for quite some time -- till Anthony, another onliner I've never met, sent me Front Page 2000! I am re-designing my site, page by page, and thank God for his amazing ways of answering prayer!
Gerald, another onliner I've never met but feel a close kinship to, assisted me in answering my many, many (did I say many?) stupid questions. I didn't even know the terminology to be able to ask the questions!
Another online friend, Gary, one day informed me via an IM that he had bought me a computer, which the factory would be shipping in the next couple weeks. The one I had been using, which kept crashing, my son had built from discarded parts he pulled out of dumpsters! As a single mom, I could barely afford the monthly charge to stay online. You can imagine how thrilled I was when my prayers for a new computer finally were answered!
KWVE-FM Christian radio, of Costa Mesa, Calif., provided the inspiring backdrop to my endeavors. Via satellite I have been able to enjoy, from thousands of miles away, the most inspiring preaching and anointed music this side of heaven, while I typed away! Truly the best things in life are free!
Mitch, another onliner I've never met, walked me through some of the more advanced features of building a site. Another friend, Wade, kept my site online by paying the hosting fee during my cancer treatments. So you see, no one person can take the credit for this massive project.
If you've read this far, you get to hear the neatest story. Back in 1970, long before computers were even invented, I received a word from a traveling preacher that said, in part, "...and I will use you with the printed page, and [here he paused, with a puzzled tone of voice, when he said the phrase that followed] -- the electronic page." [as in "main page," or "home page," maybe?] Neither he nor I had any idea what he was saying. He seemed to be wondering, What in the world am I saying here? I set it aside, for years, with other things to "ponder" in my heart. More recently, it dawned on me that this internet ministry was in the mind and heart of God, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, way back then. What dew ewe think?
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