First Lady of Louisiana Donna Edwards Brings Hope to Incarcerated Women

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🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode features an interview with Donna Edwards, the First Lady of the state of Louisiana. Donna shares a little about her life and background, including partnering with her husband, Governor John Bel Edwards, in public service. As part of that service and in devotion to God, Donna felt led to share Jesus Calling with women inmates in her state, and visited them in person to deliver the books. She talks about that experience and the effect that gesture had on her and the women she encountered that day. We also interview two women from the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women who received The First Lady’s gift that day. They candidly share heart wrenching stories of their past and the hope they now have in their futures.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we visit with Donna Edwards, the First Lady of the
0:06.7	State of Louisiana. My name is Donna Edwards. I'm the First Lady Louisiana. My biggest blessing is that I'm married to my high school
0:14.8	sweetheart 28 years and we have three children. I was born in Mississippi. My mom,
0:21.0	we always laugh and say she was a domestic engineer.
0:25.0	She is one of those women who can put out a spread of food and have it cleaned up before you you know go back in the
0:36.1	kitchen she's just she is like the hostess with the mostest and she was always
0:41.3	there when I came home and literally I remember her having a Tupperware Bowl of cookie dough and it was pecan
0:50.1	cookies and she would scoop out every day and have fresh cookies. I mean literally
0:54.1	it's something right of a book. And my dad worked for International Paper
0:57.9	Company and you know I was the youngest of two brothers so I was a baby girl and I was tough and you know he
1:05.5	would take me out in the woods to help me how to hunt, showed me how to use a compass and
1:10.6	you know he showed me how to hand shake really firm because he'd gone to one of those
1:15.6	Dale Carnegie courses and so he just taught me to be strong and who I am and and so together
1:21.6	they I think produced a pretty strong woman.
1:25.0	You know I can remember on Sunday after church we'd go walking in the woods,
1:30.0	especially in the fall, you know, swing on vines.
1:32.0	And you know, swing on vines.
1:32.6	And, you know, it was just a lot of fun growing up
1:35.2	in the neighborhood and hanging out with kids
1:37.4	and running the roads and bicycles.
1:39.6	And then we moved to Amete, Louisiana, when I was in fifth grade.
1:46.0	And that's when I met my husband.
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