About Granny

My name is Dorothy Witt aka (also known as) Granny Witt.  My only granddaughter thought that name suited me better than either grandmother or grandma.  Because of that everyone who knew me started calling me “Granny”.  I was brought up in a religious home.  I knew about God, but I did not feel like I personally knew Him.

My maiden was Dorothy Perry.  I was born into a large family in Ohio.  In my twenties I married a kind and loving man named Stan.  We had only one child and when she was ten years old, her daddy died suddenly from a heart condition. I was  a widow at 34 years old.   That prompted most of my friends to become matchmakers and two years later one of my neighbors introduced me to a widower named George, who had a daughter and a son.

Since George was in management, we were invited to many cocktail parties.  Drinking became a habit and I quickly became addicted to alcohol.  This just about ruined my life and the lives of my daughter and my new family.

After my daughter married, she became a “born again believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. She started sending me Bible Messages, telling me how Jesus had changed her life for the better.  I finally realized my great need for a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ who had died for my sins. I prayed and invited Jesus to come into my life and to take it over.  I admitted that I had failed miserably on my own.

Six months later , George died of lung cancer, but not before he also turned his life over to Jesus .  I was a widow again at 49 years old.  Unlike the first time I became a widow, this time I wasn’t dependent on myself.  I had Jesus to lean on and to direct my ways.  He healed me spiritually, emotionally and physically from the inside out.  He became this widow’s MIGHT. He has used me mightily  over this past 41 years to help others.  After a few years of His training I became a Christian Missionary, helping pregnant teen-age girls.  I was privileged to introduce many of them to Jesus.

I recently retired, but am still active in my local church.  I am still reaping the blessings Salvation brings and want others to have the same.  My chains of addiction are long gone.  I have truly been set free.   When I hear these words from “Amazing Grace”,  “My chains are gone, I’ve been set free, My Lord, My God has rescued me” My heart is filled with gratitude and I think back to where I was and where I am now.

I saw myself as a hopeless drunk, but Jesus saw me as I am now.  Anyone can have these same blessings and my prayer is that  you will choose to ask Jesus to dwell in your heart as I did.

Psalm 48:14 “For this is God, Our God forever and ever.  He will be our guide even to death.”