Ruth Bell Graham ... wrote in a 1947 poem: "cry—/ if you must—/ but privately cry; the heart will adjust to being the heart,/not the forefront of life." Now that Billy Graham and his children ...

“An odd cross to bear” is an odd but apt phrase that Ruth Bell Graham used to describe her life ... Wills’s depth of research, including especially her analysis of many of Ruth’s poems, bolsters an ...

But in between, Saturday's funeral service for Ruth Bell ... Graham Library. Though she lived only in the memories of family and friends Saturday, Ruth Graham did speak – in the book of poems ...

(RNS) — Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham ... And then I used her poems and tried to make it work that way and set her in the context of what was going on with white ...

Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell Graham befriended North Carolina’s death ... said that Ruth poured her feelings into her journals and poems. I did not have access to her journals, but many of Ruth ...

The Rev. Billy Graham and his wife Ruth during a press conference at their home in Montreat in 1996. Scott Sharpe [email protected] Ruth Bell Graham died 10 years ago this month.

In addition to her husband and Lotz, Graham’s survivors include her children: Virginia Leftwich, Ruth Bell, William Franklin ... 14 books and collections of poems. Later in life, she suffered ...

Ruth Bell Graham, who pursued a vigorous if reclusive Christian ministry for six decades in the shadow of her famous husband, the Rev. Billy Graham, died June 14 at her home near Montreat ...

But if there was an earthly power who helped both raise him up and keep his feet on the ground, it was his bright-souled, big-hearted wife Ruth Bell Graham ... weekend before Christmas in 1973 ...