Lara Love's Blog, page 396
April 30, 2014
Guess What God Said to Me....Is He Telling You the Same?
Keep doing what I've called you to do, and trust me. I heard the words clearly, and I knew of course their source. I used to pray that God would speak to me clearly. Then I realized He always does. It's merely a matter of whether I'm listening - not to mention making the decision to obey. These words that came to me just moments ago did not surprise me, of course. It's not as though I haven't heard them before; I've heard them countless times to be truthful. The Lord has a way of reminding me...
Is Kindness Your Passion?
"Whom do I have the pleasure of speaking with this morning?" the woman asked when I called the Burt's Bees Company to inquire about a donation for paralyzed dog Mr. Simeon and his ongoing severe skin issues.
Wow. I couldn't hold my tongue. I told her the truth. I was blessed beyond measure at her warm tone, her friendliness, her unusual words when it comes to people answering the telephone. When was the last time somebody - particularly a complete stranger - told me that it was a pleasure to r...
Wow. I couldn't hold my tongue. I told her the truth. I was blessed beyond measure at her warm tone, her friendliness, her unusual words when it comes to people answering the telephone. When was the last time somebody - particularly a complete stranger - told me that it was a pleasure to r...
April 29, 2014
When Wrong is Right
Have you ever noticed how much wrong and right seem to switch roles these days? Wrong disguises itself as right, and how tempting and tantalizing it is, and right gets twisted and turned around and given such a bad rap that it has become wrong in our society to do right. At the very least, it sure isn't popular. The more I try to do what is right, the more unpopular I feel and the narrower the road seems to be. And I am ever astonished at how many people I meet who are doing wrong and have co...
Get Out of the Box....
I have lived my life in boxes. One box after another. Running and jumping and skipping and dancing and trudging and crawling from this box to another box, never on an even path, mind you. I have fallen flat - and hard - on my face living this life of boxes. I have been stuck in some boxes, and other boxes I have popped right out of. Sometimes I have been like a warm, sticky pop-tart popping so high and fast out of the toaster it lands who knows where. My box was the toaster. Other times, I wa...
April 28, 2014
Are You Beautiful - Or Not?
May I ask you a question? Okay, let me be more frank. May I ask you a personal question? Oh, please don't worry. I won't dig too deep. I"ll leave the digging to you, that is, whether you will dig and how far you will dig with my question. So here goes. If you had never seen another human, never read a book or magazine, or seen a television or movie, how would you define beautiful?
Okay, admittedly, it's hard for me to ever ask a single question. So here goes with another. Get ready. Get set. H...
Okay, admittedly, it's hard for me to ever ask a single question. So here goes with another. Get ready. Get set. H...
April 26, 2014
Grateful for an Apple - Every Good Gift
When was the last time you were grateful for an apple? Or thankful for a granola bar? Or felt blessed for a toilet that flushes? Or water that comes out hot? Or a spray bottle that squirts out yummy smelling household cleaner? Or shoes that fit? Or socks that don't have holes in them? Or a car that gets you places - even if the traffic's bad? Or a stinky, slobbering, shedding dog that's still alive and breathing, even if he keeps blowing that dog breath straight at your nostrils? Or all the p...
April 24, 2014
Stop Running Away - Such a Beautiful Race
Stop running away. Seriously. You know you're doing it, don't you? You know which way you're supposed to go, but you're going in the opposite direction. Or another direction anyway. And you keep trying to convince yourself nobody can see. Well, it may be true. Maybe nobody knows. Maybe no human knows anyway. But if you think God doesn't know you're on the run, think again. He knows. He's not called God for just anything. He's God because He's God. And God knows everything. Just like He knew w...
One True Light - Poem for My King
Light wraps around meEntwining me in a rope Of honeysuckle sweet restCapturing me in its delicate holdEnfolding me in the warm hug of hopeFor I am promised to no longer walk in darknessThough dark may appear and press in all aroundFor I walk confidently after the OneWhose hands take mine in their ownAnd who leads me lovingly down the wide aisle And through the narrow gate to the altarWhere He makes His face, His ways, known to meMarrying me to Himself, by faith I am HisAs the cross from which...
April 23, 2014
Paralyzed dog Mr. Simeon (on left in photo with his sweet...
Paralyzed dog Mr. Simeon (on left in photo with his sweetheart Miss Mercy), turned in to Walk by Faith Ministry from a home in which he was found emaciated, with a skin infection, snotty, with extraordinarily long nails, and surrounded on the floor by an enormous amount of feces, has come a super long way in the past year or so!
Mr. Simeon (on left) with Miss Mercy (and Mommie!)He had been hit by a car, rescued by a passerby who thought he was dead, and kept in a home for a year where un...
Mr. Simeon (on left) with Miss Mercy (and Mommie!)He had been hit by a car, rescued by a passerby who thought he was dead, and kept in a home for a year where un...
The Sting of Loss
I huddle up in my old purple sweatshirt in the early morning chill, window wide open to let in the spring air as the birds tweet away, fan humming in its endless circles, never going anywhere but ever blowing the day around, and around, laptop where it belongs, on my lap, and ouch. The sting of loss. Day after day, I sidled up with my laptop, my Bible, my steaming oatmeal in thermal cups beside me, my sweet blessing of a dog on the other side. Jake. Even as he marched on toward heaven as bone...
