As a modern day version of the biblical Samaritan Woman (also known as the Woman at the Well in John 4) I survived child abuse and four broken marriages. At age 50 I met my FIFTH husband…who said he did not see me as a “messed up woman…but a woman who had never been loved the way she deserved”. (Later he said he saw me “Through the Eyes of Jesus”. What woman would not be overjoyed to be so “well-loved”. It was the Unconditional Love I had never known in human form. After sixteen years together he lost his cancer battle and I am still learning to live without my Soul Mate. For almost all of those sixteen years my husband Gerry (initials G.O.D.) performed with me as Denee The Clown while working with disabled students in the public school system. He was a Hero to many more than just me!

You said you saw me through the Eyes of Jesus
Not a woman who was too far gone to save
You weren’t afraid to walk with me
This Divine Appointment made you brave

We spent many hours talking
and then one day we KNEW!
God had brought the two of us together
Our Spirits were “brand new”

Two hearts that needed healing
joined forever to be ONE
We saw so many miracles
and we had So much fun!

You shed your shy demeanor
then “Denee the Clown” appeared
We served up Joy and Laughter
and we often volunteered

You helped with the disabled
the students in your care
and anytime I needed help
Guess WHO was always there!

My love, you were my Hero
I am lost without you here
But the God you put your trust in
Is the ONE who keeps me near

He said He’d be a husband
to the Widows left behind
For you were an Earthly Preview
of HIS LOVE…the Heavenly kind

A love that’s always Giving
A love that’s ever True
How Blessed I was to love you
and to be SO WELL-LOVED by YOU!