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As my fifth book, PIECES FROM MY HEART: Inspiration from Lara Love's almost Daily Inspiration, joins the ranks of my just released THE HOMELESS DREAM book and my previous three books, I am putting out a plea for HELP WANTED in purchasing the books and in helping to get the word out there.

I do not at this time do any traditional marketing, promotion, and publicity for my books, and am trusting the Lord will get them along with my online almost Daily Inspiration and monthly WALK BY FAITH DEVOTI...

IS GOD SPEAKING TO YOU? Daily Inspiration 2/19

I have yet to understand why some people do not believe God speaks to His children. For starters, given the Bible is God's inspired and authoritative Word for humanity, how can we doubt God speaks to us? Secondly, given we are adopted into God's family and become His children when we repent and believe Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, how can we doubt God would speak to His very own children? Third, given the Bible is chock full from beginning to end of God spea...

THE ULTIMATE LIST - Daily Inspiration 2/18

My mom is the ultimate list maker. She has been for as long as I can remember. Lists for this and lists for that. Lists for herself and lists for my dad and the kids when we were young. Lists for school, trips, events, anything and everything. She is not alone. Loads of people keep TO DO lists, don't they? Ever striving to check stuff off the lists, list makers look to their lists to remember their goals and to work to meet them. How many of us, however, have TO BE lists in addition to, or in...

DONATIONS NEEDED for PARALYZED DOGS BUDDIES

Paralyzed dogs Miss Mercy and Mr. Simeon have kept me on my toes recently, what with three-year-old Miss Mercy almost dying a few weeks ago and needing to undergo exceedingly expensive life-saving surgery and surviving only by the grace of God, and now Mr. Simeon with crystals in his urine and a possible stone along with both of them needing medications, diaper changes and all that goes with it, and a special diet for both of them. They are both headed back to the vet next week for follow-up...

When God Gets in Your Face - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/17

I have been struggling recently. I could be totally vague, but I would rather be entirely real. I have been having a hard time with an unhealthy combo of fear and anger. And as desperately as I desire to please the Lord whom I love beyond measure, I have found myself falling instead of standing, crawling instead of walking, and getting knocked down more times than I care to think about. But God has a way of getting in my face as I relentlessly pursue Him in my dedicated desire to learn how to...

Cleaning Out Your Heart & Life - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/16

Years ago, upon the suggestion of someone helping me, I went through my heart, home, and life seeking anything and everything that was displeasing to the Lord - from false gods and false religion to icons, statues, music, books, beliefs, clothes, relationships, whatever, etc. - and repented of it and rid myself of it - even throwing some of it away. My life had been riddled with idols and false gods, and plenty else that displeased the Lord, in many cases without my even knowing it. I had bee...

A Doggone Amazing Lesson in Obedience - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/14

When I distinctly heard the Lord speak into my heart that I should go ahead with an exceedingly expensive surgery needed to help save three-year-old paralyzed dog Miss Mercy's life, I sat in the small office of a veterinarian I had only just met and told him I needed to go ahead with the surgery for one reason alone. God. I told him that I live for the Lord, and that my obedience to God is more important than anything else. The vet had done everything but tell me flat out to euthanize Miss Me...

Don't Hoard the Lord - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/11

When the man who had been horrifically tormented by the devils that possessed him was set miraculously free when Jesus cast the devils into a herd of swine, the man could think of nothing more wonderful in the world to do than to hang out with Jesus his healer and deliverer. The man had been so heinously tormented that he had lived naked in the tombs. It should not have been a surprise then that he would want to spend his time with his savior. He must have been utterly enamored with and etern...

Miraculous Update on Paralyzed Dog

Miss Mercy's first miracle was when she survived being hit by a car and was brought to a shelter in rural Georgia, her second miracle was when she escaped what would have been probable euthanization when God brought her to safety under the little wings of Walk by Faith Ministry, her next miracle was when her exceeding pain simply went away, her subsequent miracle was when she survived a surgery a few weeks ago that the surgeon could hardly believe she survived, and her most recent miracle has...

God's Good Work in You - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/9

     A beautiful friend who passed away but leaves behind a great legacy of love and kindness, of sweetness and her gorgeous, heartwarming smile, used to be a hairdresser. She told me that God working on us is like a hairdresser working on a client. She described how absolutely yucky and smelly and ugly the hair is in the process of having all the salon product stuff creating a gunky mess while the client sits in the chair waiting for the end result. How awful it all looks righ...