Kan. woman bares her faith through poetry

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A 92-year-old Kansas woman is baring her pain and her faith, and putting it down on paper.

Peg Penry lives in Topeka, and she just published her fifth book of poetry -- a collection of religious verses she has written through the years.

Publishing her poems, she says, is something she just had to do.

Penry says that at her age, she's in pain "all the time" -- but that her book titled "Wings: Poems of Prayers, Pleas and Praise" is what God wanted her to do.

Penry is a devout Christian, still holding membership in Westminster Presbyterian Church in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. She lived there with her husband, Wayne Penry, who in 2004 after a career in the U.S. Air Force.