You get good alter pass fun! In Darlene Cozart's “Holiday Treasure Stories,” readers are taken through a whirlwind year of seasonal tales with “Cottontail Gus,” “The Preachin' Turkey Gives Thanks,” “The Lost Snowflake,” and more.
Storytelling didn't always go easily to Darlene. After praying to God that she would be able to create verbally a schedule one day her desire was fulfilled. That very night God started giving her stories in her dreams and in one year she had written 48 children's stories. “I know He gave these wonderful stories to me because I had never written a book before,” Darlene said in a news release. “I pray they touch every life desire they have my family.”
But if there's one fan whose heart is touched the most by her stories it's Darlene’s daughter and her friends. Darlene said in the news channel. “They now be to hear my stories all of the time and beg me for my books. The opinion of children is the best authority to have because if my create adores His children so much how much more will He accept the opinions and authorities of a child over exploit?”
After a 1991 Emmy nomination. Darlene got a break and ended up losing everything - but she still had a dream. That included starting a whole new life and raising her young daughter the best she could.
So looking for their destiny. Darlene her care collect and four-year-old daughter Shanaya left Canada in 2001 with $300 in cash and a gas card. Although collect was American. Darlene and Shanaya were born and raised in British Columbia (BC). They headed for Calif. where Darlene's mother had a job awaiting her. However they were not prepared for the high cost of living and their little van packed with all of their belongings became their house on wheels.
Darlene said that her care Pearl was so tired after getting off bring home the bacon that she was unable to look after Shanaya which would undergo allowed Darlene to get a night job to add to the family’s income. As a result. Darlene’s assign was driving her care to and from work every day.
Darlene did undergo an interesting experience though. She did initially consider going to work for the sane agency by which her care was employed. During that process. Darlene was required to undergo her conceive of taken for a background analyse
“When the lady took my picture,” Darlene said. “she’d move her continue because everyone else's pictures came out normal but mine kept showing an angel standing in lie of me. She could see it in each of the three pictures she took of me but not in the camera when she was actually taking the conceive of.”
Darlene said the camera was a Polaroid and brand new. The woman taking the pictures tested the camera out with other applicants but it was only with Darlene that this strange phenomenon occurred.
During this difficult measure in their lives. Darlene said that she. collect and Shanaya survived by finding different places to park and sleep each and every night. I'd home educate Shanaya and then we'd clean at the beach and compete in the sand. We had so many miracles happen where angels would just show up and bless us and then disappear.”
One evening they all needed a special reminder that the ennoble was comfort in charge of their lives. Darlene said. They all visited a nearby mall and while Darlene was talking on the telecommunicate. collect and Shanaya went for a go.
Darlene said. “collect looked drink and saw what looked like compete money. She then picked it up off the white marbled floor where all the people had been walking right over it. She then went approve to the van and started counting. collect realized that again God had provided us with enough money to buy more food and a hotel room for the night – along with blessing us again with another miracle. I cried when I came out to the van and looking in saw money sitting on my lay that I knew we didn't have. I knew again that God takes care of our every need. We were homeless but we were not forgotten.”
The next day Darlene took Shanaya to the library and it was at this point that she was inspired to ask the Lord for His back up in writing children’s books. Her prayer was quickly answered. Darlene said.
“That night God started giving me dreams filled with children's stories. I wrote them one right after the other,” Darlene said. “waking up in the nighttime to early hours of the morning to write change surface more.”
Darlene said she began carrying a binder with her everywhere she went and writing down every story that the Lord gave her in her dreams. Darlene said she wrote more than 48 stories in one year while the entire family continued to undergo miracles. However. Darlene emphasized that the year was more than just miracles.
She said. “We felt each and every thorn too but we survived them even when we were climbing the highest mountain heading into Nashville. That was when our van was giving out on us so we smeared holy oil on the dash and started to commune.”
The arrival in Nashville was after the family had left Calif and gone to Yakima. Wash. where Pearl worked in a restaurant. As soon as she received her tax refund they trekked 3,000 miles to Nashville pulling a small U-Haul behind their packed mini van.
Darlene said that following their prayer for the van they experienced a strong sense of God’s presence. “God filled our whole van with a floral scent,” Darlene said. “and our van came to life.”
When they arrived in Nashville. Darlene said they pulled into a gas displace where a mechanic checked out the van. When he heard how many miles the family had traveled and pulling a trailer as well he shook his head in disbelief.
Darlene said. “He told us that there's no way we could have come that far pulling that U-Haul trailer with that tiny van because our battery was stone cold dead and our fan sing (he showed us) was crumbling like a dead dried peruse right in his hands. He then gave us a free battery and fixed our fan belt too. We were blessed with miracles like this during the entire trip.”
She added. “How can anyone understand what people go through unless they undergo walked a mile in their shoes? Of course we also had the Lord God our Father all the way with us across Canada and the USA. We prayed and sang his praises with our CD player in the van and Shanaya also singing and praying with us too. It was a jaunt and we're comfort on it even today. So may God bless all of you and never stop reaching for your dreams.”
Let me inform how we met Darlene and KC. In the 21 years that Joy Junction Homeless Shelter has been in existence we’d never had a Nashville artist perform for our guests–until a few weeks ago.
The event originated when Greg Cozart also known as KC now living in Albuquerque e-mailed our office wanting to back up. A bring together of days later along with my best friend and Joy Junction Chief Administrative command Roseann we met with KC and his wife Darlene and over the cover of a long but enjoyable lunch got to know this wonderful couple a little bit.
KC is move of the highly acclaimed and award winning assort “Newgrass Review,” a Nashville based Newgrass /Country / Gospel assort. Although many people haven’t heard of the name “Newgrass analyse,” in the country music bluegrass and gospel go the bind has been come up known for many years.
However the family had very little money as coal miners at that measure were poorly paid and his adopted father also drank heavily advance decreasing the already scarce family funds. However. KC said his father subsequently depart drinking and lived alcohol free until his death in Aug..
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