Lara Love's Blog, page 410

Happy Birthday to Me !!!!!!!!!!!

October 16 is my birthday, and I'm telling the world! And just in case I miss anybody, I would greatly appreciate it if you would help tell the whole wide world that October 16 is my birthday! Happy, happy birthday to me!!!!! Now why in heaven's name at the age of 46 do I need to get the attention of absolutely everybody? I can promise you, it's not for the sake of chocolate cupcakes, great big birthday presents with pink ribbons, and so everyone can sing perfectly out of key. It's because I...

The End to My Story

Why do we always think we know the end to our stories? We think about it, plan for it, dream about it, consider it, rush ahead to it, or slow down instead, or meditate on it, contemplate it, try to change it, leave it the same as it is, resist it, the inevitable we think that it is, conform to it or sock it down like a punching bag as though we truly can, yes, we live our daily lives so often thinking we know. We know our future, don't we? Or do we?

White picket fences or none at all, 2.4 kids...

Goodbye Cookie Cutter Life Honey

I am at such peace today being me. But I have lived much of my life running from one cookie cutter to another. Your cookie cutter. His cookie cutter. Her cookie cutter. I ran from cookie cutter to cookie cutter, figuring somehow I would find just the right cookie cutter - and FIT. But I never did. Of course, I wasn't made for the world's cookie cutters. I wasn't made to be jammed into somebody else's ideas and opinions of what my life should look like. I was made to be the me God created me t...

Just Call Me Preacher

For a 100% Jewish woman who grew up in a family that didn't believe in God and became an agnostic, atheist, and who knows what else, who has been so broken along the path of life at times that I couldn't fathom being put back together let alone being put to any kind of good use, I continue to be astonished at what God has done with my life. While He continues to put the jagged pieces of my life back together as He makes a vessel of me fit for His use, the Lord is continuing to use me to preac...

The Wound Deep Inside Your Heart

Do you have a place so deep inside your heart that cobwebs keep it from the light? Does dust rest over what lies under in such a way that no light can reach it? Have you buried it so deep that nothing, not even God, can touch it? Have you blanketed it in shame, covered it in fear, shoved it under a smile that decorates your face when all along your hurt pinches and jabs and pokes at the door of your heart in desperation to let it out, let it out, let it out?

Is it time to throw open the door t...