She was a precocious 15-year-old girl from New Jersey; he was a popular German boy enlisted in the US Air Force. Yet their lives changed dramatically when they crossed paths and the spark of love began to ignite. Author Donna Conrad remembers fondly the first time she laid eyes on Hans, and how her life soon became examples of the love of family, the love of marriage and the love of God. Her autobiography, Recognizing God's Grace, highlights the journey of Donna's life from a difficult childhood with a verbally abusive father to having a long-distance relationship with Hans, to getting married young and starting a family, to coping with cancer. Donna also details the highs and lows of marriage, from grappling with miscarriages to handling her husband's alcohol abuse, yet still sustaining a fifty-year marriage. Through it all, she had hope in God, family and Hans to keep going.
