Blog | Virginia Knowles

This Is My Story #7: To Dream the Impossible Dream

What I find ironic is that I was simultaneously filling out divorce paperwork and seminary application paperwork. That is a story in...

This Is My Story #6: Midlife Reckoning

People admired me as the godly full quiver homeschool mother with boundless creativity. I reveled in that reputation, at least until my...

This Is My Story #5: Full Quiver, Full Throttle

In the meantime, we had told our pastor about this zealous group of churches. Duly impressed, he moved his family to Maryland where their...

This Is My Story #4: College and Courtship, Of Course!

Just after New Year’s Day 1981, my parents moved us again, this time to northern Kentucky. I didn’t want to go to a new high school for...

This Is My Story #3: Preppy Teen

In the Spring of 1977, Dad’s company transferred him to Baltimore and I promptly morphed from hippy to preppy. Cowl neck sweaters,...

Puritans and Quakers Up My Family Tree

(This is the Small Story from my chapter called "Story") My one-sentence personal testimony is: “I got saved as a 12 year old at a family...

This Is My Story #2: Hippy Child

When I first “found Jesus” at the age of 12, I was not in familiar territory at all. I was not raised in a Christ-filled home. My...

This Is My Story #1: Introduction

Lift Up Your Head and Laugh “Lift up your head and laugh!” He spoke as a prophet, but what did he know those thirty odd years ago? What...