Sarah Mether slmether@gmail.com (02.28.2010 @ 23:48:52)
Hello Ann, The Lord used your writing back in the 80s to help me get through a very difficult time. (o: Thank you so much for being there! There is a poem that you'd written back then that was on a bookmark (that was part of a greeting card) which I've had in my head ever since. I lost the bookmark years ago (bummer!) but am hoping you can tell me if I have the words of your poem correct. (I apologize in advance if I'm messing it up.) It's simple and beautiful and full of truth. Here goes: "Through the thousands of ordinary days when you want to give up, it pays to hang on. To be true. To trust Jesus. He'll surprise you with special moments." Tho' I don't have the bookmark anymore, I keep these words in a special place in my heart. Thank you, Ann. (o:

Diane dianemarie70@hotmail.com (02.26.2010 @ 03:15:56)
Dear Ann, I read your book, I Love the Word Impossible, when I was in my teens. My Sunday School teacher gave it to me as a gift. I really treasured it, and read it. When I went to Messiah College, I wrote your name to be a speaker for our chapel services. I wanted to hear you and learn more about you. You had helped me when I was basically still a child. I have since lost the book, but I remembered the title and only now, 20 plus years later, thought, I should look it up on-line to see if I could buy another copy. I am pretty sure my copy had a red cover. I am so pleased to see your blog and am quite amazed that I am writing to you. Although now I do not remember many of the things in your book, I know that you had really motivated me and that your title and its simple message of faith stuck with me. I have faced some impossibilities and have been told that I would die because of a pituitary gland tumor that seemed to take so much from me. Our God is a God of miracles and He has allowed me to live because I believe He, too, loves the word impossible when it is pronounced by mere man. I love you although I only know what I have just now read about you. God bless you and your family and your life! With love, Diane

Violet violet.adonis@yahoo.com (02.25.2010 @ 12:49:26)
Hi Ms Kiemel, I listened to our local christian radio station tonight in Cape Town, South Africa. It was a broadcast on Focus on the Family where you shared about the loses you have suffered and how you changed within your circumstances. I had to have a hysterectomy and will never be able to have children, what made it difficult is that I am over thirty and have kept myself pure and couldnt make heads or tails about my circumstances. I have had much peace lately but sometimes it still touches me somewhere deep inside. Listening to this broadcast, I felt sadness, i cried but i feel great joy by listening to your testimony and it has greatly encouraged me to watch and wait and I will see. Much love and blessings to you and your family and your ministry. Thank you for touching my life in the way that you did. God bless!!!!

Dirk & Daleen van Zyl dvzyl@sbuys.co.za (02.25.2010 @ 07:08:42)
Hi Ann. Your testimony was aired today in South Africa on a radio episode of Focus on the Family. It touched my heart to hear how you are able to Dream, even after life happened. My wife and I have just been tired now for 2 years. Our triplets were born prematurely on 20 February 2008. Just 2 weeks too early. They were all healthy, but because of a bizarre virus she went into early labour. It changed us completely. It is just so hard to make the pain your friend and move forward, but we do not want to miss out on everything God has planned for our lives. How do we Dream again? Dirk & Daleen van Zyl

Angela Thomas AngelaNicole.Thomas@gmail.com (02.25.2010 @ 04:10:54)
Dear Ann This morning, I overslept and was so annoyed as I knew I would be very late for work. I rushed to wake my 9 year old son and hurried him on to get ready for school, then got washed and dressed while my husband made the lunches and eventually, we left home. I dropped my husband at the taxi rank and then took my son to school and finally I was on the highway heading off to work and still fuming for running late. The 8o'clock news started on one of the radio stations I like to listen to. I am meant to start work at 8, so the irritation worsened. I then changed radio station to Ccfm (our local christian radio station) - which I usually do when I'm driving and feeling frustrated or angry as the music or message normally relaxes me. Focus on the Family with Dr James Dobson had already started, and they had introduced you as their guest speaker. You shared your story of how you and your husband were struggling to start a family and how after all the sadness and dissapointment, God had finally blessed you with two babies. Ann, I cried all the way to work and haven't really stopped, and I'm sure everyone passing me must have wondered why I was so upset. You see, my husband and I are married for 2 and a half years now, and have been struggling to have a baby. I was 18 and in my final year at high school when I fell pregnant with my son and I'll be 29 this year. My husband is not the biological father of my son, but he is a wonderful dad to him. My son calls him daddy and my husband refers to him as our son. My husband and I have visited doctors and have had all sorts of tests done, but the doctors all insist that both of us are unable to conceive. This news (as confirmed in July last year), has broken my heart into millions of pieces. There are days when I'm okay, and I feel satisfied that eventhough I can't have any more children, that at least I have my son, but then there are days when I cry non stop all day as if someone had died, and even though the doctors have said that I can't conceive, I wait in anticipation each month hoping that the news would be good and I'll be pregnant, but it never is. My husband is amazing and so supportive, but he says he's not sad that we can't have babies, he says he's happy with our son and that things happen for a reason and only God knows why - then I'm furious at him and can't even speak to him because I believe that we aren't falling pregnant because it's only me longing for it to happen. I pray to God all the time to make the pain go away and to prove those doctors wrong because he is a God of miracles, but the pain is still there . . . I am so confused and don't know whether I should persue fertility treatment (but how does God feel about this?) or whether I should investigate adoption or whether I should just make peace with things and move on with my life. Ann, please pray for me and my husband. Thank you for the inspiration you are to others God bless Angela

Arlene Jewell arleneakiko@hotmail.com (02.24.2010 @ 17:52:06)
Dear Ann, I met you in 1975 in Marysville, Ca at a 1976 rally and I gave you a CA redwood cross. I was a freshman in college and was thrilled when you wrote me a thank you note in return. I've all of your books; can't wait for the new one. 35 years have brought teaching career, marriage 3 wonderful young adult children, divorce after 24 years because of pornography and integrity issues, then 5 years later God gave me deliverance from anger and forgiveness for him and a vision for my family to be together again, so remarried last year but the issues were still issues and the dream died. Still hanging in there, still want the desire of my heart, but floundering and struggling. Please will you pray for me and my family? And if it were at all possible, could we connect via email or cell phone? Take care and God bless you and your family and I am sorry about you losing Will. My dad died of cancer 10 years ago. I hope you get this message. Love, Arlene Jewell

Julia Duin JDuin@WashingtonTimes.com (02.22.2010 @ 11:27:09)
Ann- am trying to get ahold of you - maybe for a column - please email me (jduin@washingtontimes.com) - am the religion editor here. Am not sure how to find you..

Susan Hoover ghp33@yahoo.com (02.20.2010 @ 15:22:39)
HI Ann, Over 30 years ago, my husband and myself heard you for the first time. We were fascinated how God used you during those times and felt a connection to you. We were very young believers then and time went on and you seemed to drop off the face of the world when you were married. I was just cleaning the floor and some sort of conversation came up about you and somehow after so many years, my husband remembered your name. I had to look your name up on the internet. As I read what happened in your life in the years following your marriage, tears came to my eyes. All of us have struggled, some more than others, but yet I see once again that you are still in the race and not letting the discouragements of life destroy you, but letting God mold you however painful. How many people have seen God's glory because of your life? His working in you and you accepting it and loving people where you are speaks more to me than anything else. It is a model that I an encouraged to continue to follow. Many blessings to you, Ann. I look forward to meeting you in heaven one day. Love in Christ , Susan

Janelle Chua Graham janelle.chua@gmail.com (02.18.2010 @ 18:22:27)
Hi Ann, I got hold of your first book 15 years ago. I bought it in a yard sale in the Philippines. I think it is one of the first publication. A few years later, somebody lent me another book, I gave God time. I just want to tell you that both books have encouraged me to walk with Jesus and to continue to follow him. I just got married and I'm 37 yrs old... I also gave God time... =) Thank you for sharing your life through your writings. May God's immeasurable grace be always evident in you!

Helen emed@att.net (02.16.2010 @ 17:36:57)
Thank you for your blog of 2/14. My pastor taught on that very same verse. I'm having a hard time counting it as all joy!!! My husband was out with his girlfriend that day. We've been separated since Nov. 09. Our son called him to wish him a Happy Valentine's Day and was told that he had other plans, but would see him the next day. Well, he did stop by, but for just a few minutes. I pray for my little boy who loves the Lord and ask why God isn't working faster to bring daddy home. I tell him to "never give up" and that no matter what happens God will take care of us. Thank you again, Ann. God uses you to inspire me to keep my head up and look for the little and big ways He is taking care of me at this time.

Julie Carley carlelyjulie@yahoo.com (02.14.2010 @ 09:06:08)
I was a young child when I heard you speak in Okoboji, Ia. My parents bought one of your books for me and I had you sign it. I remeber how touched I felt when I heard you speak. Just a couple of weeks ago thoughts of you came to me and I wondered what happened to you. Ironically my mom said that my dad had come across the book they bought for me and was reading it. Curiosity about you overcame me so I found your website. I'm glad you are still bringing others to Jesus in your humble ways. I think people often don't realize the difference they can make in their everyday lives. You inspired me many years ago and left an imprint on my heart. Thank you!

Nina Wallestad wallestadn@mchsi.com (02.11.2010 @ 23:18:18)
Hi, Ann. My husband was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer this fall. The doctors predict he will be dead in 3-5 years, even with chemotherapy. We have four children together, including our two youngest who were adopted from Russia. Unfortunately, my husband and our younger son (who is now 13 years old) have a very tumultuous relationship, marked by anger, lack of acceptance and sometimes even violence. What words of wisdom can you give me as a wife and mother to help my family through this difficult time?

nancy marvin radermacher robertr@farmerstel.net (02.11.2010 @ 17:56:58)
Hi, Ann-- Do you remember coming to the little town of Warroad, MN? My sister, Janet and I came to your wedding!! Do you still speak?

Kathy Anderson landerburb@aol.com (02.11.2010 @ 12:12:10)
Dear Ann, I read your book, "And With the Gift Came Laughter", in the early '90s after marrying my wonderful husband (in my mid thirties) and then not being able to have babies. Your book gave me such hope at a time when I felt very hopeless. I was reading the newspaper this morning when your name popped into my head...I really don't know why. I just wanted you to know what a difference you and your book made in my life. Eighteen years later we are "old" parents of six beautiful kids through adoption. We have 2 girls 14 and 8 years old and 4 boys 16, 13, 4 and 2 years old. God is good in abundance! Thank you Ann, I pray God is blessing you this very moment. Warmly, Kathy Anderson

tricia lund anntl1@comcast.net (02.05.2010 @ 02:52:22)
Only now learned of your husband--I'm so very sorry & sad.

tricia lund anntl1@comcast.net (02.05.2010 @ 02:50:08)
Wondering what happened to your mother in law?

Jodi(Johnson)Montoya jodimontoya@gmail.com (02.03.2010 @ 15:34:09)
Hi Ann...we knew each other in Idaho Falls,I was Taylors'first grade teacher....I left you a message on Facebook, ...Ann, I think it's great you are doing a book for single moms...having been one for 12 years...did alot of things right, alot not so right....would love to hear from you and share some on my insights on single parenting...I am currently married(18) years...two teens...I also have a couple of questions for you...so glad to see your beautiful, smiling face...looking forward to hearing from you....Jodi

Sherry Beeson spbeeson05@hotmail.com (02.03.2010 @ 15:04:58)
Hi Ann, Maybe you will remember me. I lived in Arlington Texas (1970's) and went to Arlington 1st Naz. Same church Bob and Angie Mann attended. You came for a weekend, and then I saw you again at a West Texas rally in Abilene (I gave you a crazy blown egg that I made :)), and then we met again at BNC(SNU) when you spoke at chapel. I, along with others have missed you. Sorry for the fight you have had with life....God's grace is wonderful......you encouraged me as a teenager, and your books...well God still speaks....cuz He is the living God. I am married and have 3 child in their 20's. As God leads me I will pray for you, and for your new book. I still have the postcards you wrote me while I was at BNC and you at ENC... God bless you. Sherry (Keeton) Beeson

Debbie Reiswig hikers@nushtel.com (01.30.2010 @ 22:02:53)
You made such an impact on my life when I heard you speak at Walla Walla College in the early 80's. Had been wondering about your life and was glad to find your website tonight. Didn't know that you'd lost your husband to cancer. I'm so sorry and even though it's been years, I'm sure that you still miss him. I'll be anxious to download your books into itunes when that is available. I'll stay posted. God bless you!

Kathy Renn rennkatherine@yahoo.com (01.23.2010 @ 21:03:16)
I must add just this...|am NOT suggesting at all that the years you have spent with your four wonderful sons was not ministry...it is the highest call there is for a woman..to be a mom..I am very very blessed that God has given you that incredible privelege. Blessings on you dear one, Kathy Renn