Sandy Thrasher Oursois a wife, mother, aunt, sister, retired journalist, author, painter, illustrator, photographer and dog lover. After graduation from Louisiana State University, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editorial writer, and served as Executive Director of the Governor's Partnership for a Drug-Free Louisiana under two governors. She has been a Bible study leader, and has spoken across the South in churches and at luncheons and dinners sponsored by organizations such asStonecroft Ministrieswhich is based in Overland Park, Kansas. Sandy is the author of Rescued by Prayer, a book detailing 24 answered prayers that either she or one of her friends has experienced. She grew up in North Louisiana, spent 10 years in Dallas, and now lives in Baton Rouge with her husband, Lynn.