Barbara White's Prayer Diary

Newspaper editor Barbara White won awards for her inspirational religious columns which have been collected in five devotional books. She also recorded her private prayers and meditations for 35 years in her diaries. Looking at Barbara you think of a white-haired, shy, little old lady sipping tea in the bishop’s garden. And you’re right. That’s what she looked like. Yet her diary entries, and those of her friend and book editor John Cowart, reveal her hellacious family situation which involved alcoholism, drug abuse, prison sentences, broken bones, extortion, armed robbery, intimidation, church squabbles, and a Coast Guard helicopter search. Yet in the midst of such intense tragedy, family trouble, and heartache, Barbara’s diaries show her daily secrets of walking with God in peace.