Jane Hall is best known as the author of devotional book, The Kingdom of Heaven is Like Unto.
With a loving soul and an open heart, Jane Hall has spent her life teaching and working with those who are intellectually and/or emotionally impaired. She began her career teaching special education; her desire to better understand and teach those in her charge led her to further her education. She earned her masters in special education at the University of Alabama, and then her doctorate at George Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University.
Jane did more than teach. She instilled pride in her students, as well as self assurance and self worth. She gave them the opportunity to discover themselves and encouraged them to do things that they had always been told that they couldn’t. She made a difference in people’s lives and has learned as much from her students as they did from her. She learned the joy of simple accomplishments, the difference that self confidence can make, and how important it is to have even one person believe in you.
In 1982, Jane began a new phase of her career, working with inmates with intellectual disabilities in Georgia State Prisons and Juvenile Detention Centers. This was difficult work. In those years she had horrendous days, but also holy days in which she was blessed to see murderers, rapists and armed robbers behave in ways that, in her words, “put my Christian witness to shame”. Always a writer, she began writing devotions (which later became a devotional book) twenty years ago to fill her own spiritual need and to minister to those in corrections. Her devotional book, The Kingdom of Heaven is Like Unto, is a collection of these spiritual devotions and has been praised by many.
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