Hi!
This is not the first time I have written anything of importance, but I am very new to the blog world, have become interested in the blogging process, and excited in what I might be able to add to it.
What I don’t want to do is create something fake. I don’t want to waste your time and I don’t want to waste mine. I tend to look at a hard situation straight on for what It is, wrestle with whatever giant is facing me, dust off my cleats, and start moving the ball down the field once again.
I look at life through the Lens of God and 11 months ago He asked me to write a book. Well, it wasn’t “Hey Lisa, will you write a book?” It was more like “WRITE THE BOOK!” Write the book I thought? It is fair to say my first response wasn’t the holiest: I pretty much told God I didn’t have time to write any kind of book.
I was feeling like things were getting kind of weird at work though. My boss admitted that he never wanted my position to be part of the contract that we were working on and even though I received a nice raise a month or so earlier, meetings that usually would take place were no longer being scheduled for me and I had the feeling that I was going to be let go. Sure enough, I was let go. What was really crazy to me, was that after HR delivered the bad news, I heard God say, “Now you can write the book.” So, that is exactly what I did and I am now looking to have my book published.
My memoir tells the story of my life. I have had a pretty adventurous life and even though I had some tragic things happen along the way I never blamed God for any of them. The past five years, however, I have been hit with hard circumstances. I would wipe off my cleats and start running down the field; only to be hit once again. It is fair to say that the hits just kept coming. I wanted to find an answer to why God would allow me to suffer as much as I did and through the process of writing the book I was able to make peace with the answers that I came up with.
What I really desire is for the heartbeat of this blog to give you hope, help you find peace, give you a few laughs, or just try to help you make sense of this crazy world that is happening all around us. What I know for sure is that we could all work on being better humans. My genuine prayer is that God will heal your hearts, just like he healed mine.
I hope that you will like and follow what I post and I thank you for letting me be a part of your week.
With gratitude,
Lisa