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Feel Like You’re Wasting Your Life?

If you feel like you’re wasting your life, like nothing you’re doing is significant, meaningful, fulfilling, and important, like you have no sense of purpose and for the life of you can’t seem to find your life purpose, like no matter how hard you try you can’t seem to get anywhere in life, like you’re doing little more than trying to survive day by day, like you’re drowning in discouragement, despair, and even depression at times, or on a regular basis, I promise you I know how you feel.

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Love Doesn’t Think That Way

God makes abundantly clear in the Bible His two greatest commands are to love Him with all our hearts and to love others as ourselves, but I am afraid if you’re anything like I was for years you may have failed to take into account that genuinely loving each other should be clearly evident not only in our actions – BUT ALSO IN OUR THOUGHTS!

The more I follow Jesus, the more time I spend in the Lord’s presence, the more I study the Bible, the more I pray, the more I love the Lord, the more I year...

Don’t Stop. Keep Walking.

I don’t hear the Holy Spirit speak to me audibly like a human. But I hear Him clear as day on a regular basis word for word speaking to my heart. Like when I was walking down the beach praising and worshiping the Lord and spending time in His presence on a gloriously hot late August day.

“Don’t stop. Keep walking.” The words were plain and clear.

I had seen what looked like a ministry opportunity. Normally I would have dove headfirst into the opportunity. But the Lord had other plans. He wanted ...

I Will Be Okay If…

I wonder if you can relate to this at all. Ever thought like this?

I will be okay if so-and-so gets better. I will be okay if my son stops drinking. I will be okay if the television news gets better. I will be okay if she stops treating me badly. I will be okay if so-and-so apologizes. I will be okay if I get into graduate school. I will be okay if I get another job. I will be okay if I get a raise. I will be okay if I get out of jail soon. I will be okay if my spouse stops having an affair and ...

Sit Down and Do This

“Sit down and forgive all these people and move on,” the Lord just told me.

So I sat down. And here I am. And I choose with the love and strength of God almighty in obedience to God for the glory of God to forgive all those I need to forgive.

This world is worsening. I have never seen so much of a lack of love, kindness, care, compassion, honesty, goodness, etc. And somehow time and again I seem to bear the brunt of others’ wrongdoing. Most of the time, it seems, they don’t say they’re sorry. Th...

My Childhood Dream

So much of my childhood I do not remember even after years of getting help regarding it, but some things I recall clear as day. Like the exceedingly wonderful love I had for writing from whence I was a little girl. When the rest of the world in the way of children wanted to run off and play and do this or that, my heart above else was to read and to write. I could not get enough of either. I read and read and read, and I wrote and wrote and wrote. Endlessly it seemed. To the point I would get pa...

lara’s Update & Prayer Request

Hi everyone,

A brief update & prayer request. As some of you know by now, after 5 years on the road full-time for the Lord and ministry with my special needs ministry dogs, the Lord has led me to set up a ministry base for this next season of my ministry work in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. With an increased focus and emphasis on my writing along with continued streets and beach ministry.

It’s a beautiful area, the climate is a perfect fit for me, and it is overall quiet and peaceful in my immed...

Are You Seeking God for This?

In my early years of believing in the Lord, I sought the Lord plenty. I did lots of seeking God to the best of my recollection. It was pretty simple. I sought Him for this. And I sought Him for that. I wanted, I wanted, I wanted. I asked Him. I asked Him. I asked Him. Sometimes I was polite and humble. Other times I was proud, arrogant, and demanding which is sin and must be gotten rid of, of course. But the common denominator was plain and clear. I sought God to give me what I wanted and needed...

lara’s Beach Video Debut

This debut video comes with a challenging message about living for self – or not. Thanks for watching!

The Sweetest Friend

 

“You are the sweetest friend,” a beloved friend lovingly wrote me after I sent her something incredibly small albeit warmly and affectionately meaningful.

But as kind as she was in her caring words to me, truth is I am not the sweetest friend. She isn’t the sweetest friend either. Neither are you. Neither is anyone. Not human anyway. The sweetest friend in the universe is sweet beloved dear and precious beautiful lovely kind caring compassionate merciful giving sacrificing tender gentle strong...