“God is everything to me,” says Ideaner Harden Moore Walker, who just turned 100 years old. “God is great in His goodness.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve been praying since I was 6 years old,” she told the Orangeburg,\u00a0S.C., newspaper\u00a0the Times and Democrat,<\/em> “and I have received some big blessings. When I was little, I prayed for my father to come back home from New Jersey, and he did.”<\/p>\n She\u00a0celebrated her birthday at New Mount Zion Baptist Church last week with friends and\u00a0family. She says God provided that family.<\/p>\n “I prayed and fasted for seven years after no one thought I could conceive, and I had seven children,” she said. “I prayed and asked God to bless me with a home of my own, and He blessed me with the home that I own.”<\/p>\n Her faith has given her contentment, she says — and she’d change “nothing, absolutely nothing” about her early life — which included\u00a0working as a farm laborer for 10 cents a day, picking cotton, beans and peas.<\/p>\n As a young wife and mother, she took care of her children, worked in the fields and raised chickens and hogs to feed her family.<\/p>\n