Many of the devotional memoirs in GEMS OF NATURE were written from events that happened to our family as we lived in the country in Missouri and in Minnesota. Each devotional memoir is a "gem"-a remembrance of when we truly felt God's love reach down to us as we observed those precious gifts from God's world of nature. It is my desire to lift Jesus up in your life, to help you make Him the center of your existence and to make you a spiritual success in God's eyes.I hope you enjoy reading these memoirs and reliving with us our lives in God's world of nature.