Emphasis Preaching Journal

That "you can't tell a book by its cover," applied to Lawrence and Mary. He's a senior maintenance worker in a large metropolitan hospital. She's a surgical room assistant in the same hospital. Self-discipline and a huge amount of faith brought them to their current positions. Natives of that rural part of Appalachia known as the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, they were born into and grew up in poverty. She raised a brood of children, and together with them suffered the brutality of his alcoholism and neglect.