Addressing a group of incarcerated teenage female offenders, Edna, the donut lady of Hayward, CA,shares her story of survival. How, through stubbornness, creativity, a capacity for love, and God’s peculiar care, she escaped her would be destroyers and found salvation in, of all things, donuts. Herhome and donut shop have provided abused and neglected youth safe haven for years. After listening to her speak, one of the young inmates was overheard saying, “I feel like I just spent an hour listening to the sun talk about darkness.”