About Book
“Lost in a dark world of depression and regret, a young woman gives up hope in ever finding happiness. Finally, one lonely night in her bedroom, Tammy reaches bottom. In a last-ditch effort she prays to a God she never knew existed. The simple prayer launches her into a redemptive process that is chock-full of miraculous incidences and incredible circumstances… a spiritually charged journey you will never forget.”
About The Book
This is a picture of the back cover of the original book, copyright 2002. Shortly after a single printing of only about 250 books, my old computer’s motherboard crashed. Unfortunately, I lost everything and did not have a digital backup copy of the manuscript back then. The business that printed my book kept the pictures I sent them and the last remaining floppy disk I had of the story. I decided to rewrite the book from hard copy this year so that my future descendants would have it in digital form. Needless to say, God had other ideas for this story that were bigger than I had planned.
Year Published
Anniversary
Original Copies
Photo Gallery
A look inside the story Out of the Darkness and into His Marvelous Light
One of only two pictures I have of Cheryl and I together. Unfortunately, I gave the good ones to the original book printer and was not successful getting them returned to me. 2002.
Cheryl 1999.
Cheryl 1997.
Tammy, 2012.
Tammy, Moose Lake, Minnesota, 2014.
“The boy and his frog”, watercolor, painted by Cheryl Olson & given to Tammy on St. Patrick’s day, 1994.
Mark Willenbring with Courtney Larsen, 2000.
Larsen family, 2001.
Left to right: Dale, Tammy, Erica, Courtney & Kyle, 2012.
Left to right: Dale, Tammy, Erica, Kyle (back), Courtney near Duluth, Minnesota, 2017.
Visit with mother at Diamond Willow Assisted Living, Proctor, MN, 2016.
Near International Falls, Minnesota, 1975.
Mother Trudie at 17 years old (two years after her father released her from the orphanage).
Mother is the girl in the middle at orphanage near Chicago, Illinois, 1926.
Young Grandpa Joe, maternal grandfather.
William “Henry” Beetschen, father.
Eileen Stanley Beetschen, Dianne’s mother.
Dianne Lynne Beetchen burial records.
Dianne Beetschen, sister.
Welcome Madeline Dianne.
Madeline Dianne, granddaughter, May 10, 2019.
Courtney and her husband Michael with Madeline, May 10, 2019.
A True story of friendship, destiny, and the power of God’s Amazing Grace.