Bonnie Bachman was born into an impoverished Nebraska farm family shortly after World War II and raised in austere circumstances. When small she wore clothes her mother made out of flour bags! But as she grew she would be faced with ever-increasingly dire situations—trials by fire—fraught with fear, frustration, disappointments, and deprivations!
Now, many decades later, Ms. Bachman can reflect on those long ago adversities and praise God for them! She respects the indomitable woman of fortitude she has been forged into, observing that in order to become like gold one must likewise be refined in the smelting furnace …