The book club starts next week! Yay! I am SO excited.
Well.
Excited and slightly nauseous at the thought of sweet sisters pouring over the words God gave me in To Walk or Stay. Excited, nauseous, and yet trusting that in spite of my many imperfections, God will graciously use this book to draw each of us into some times of intimate communing with Him.
Consider this your final formal invitation (because I don’t want to pester you). I’d love for you to join us!
We will read one chapter each week and then “discuss” the end of chapter questions each Thursday on the blog. Just click here to read more and/or click here to RSVP and/or click here to join the Facebook Group.
All you need in order to participate in the club is a copy of the book…and a desire to hear from Him.
Have a great weekend!
Ordered the book because your blog has blessed me. I got it in time to escape for a long weekend to the beach. When it first came, I teared up…honestly felt it was going to take me on holy ground. I am about to finish the book and I cannot thank you enough for sharing your story…God’s testimony. It is very well written on many levels. It spoke right to my heart. I am sure Jesus will use this book in many marriages and lives to bring healing…you do well to point to the only true Healer. I really want to soak in the truths you present, so I will be back on Monday and walk thru the book club with you. May the Lord bless you for your offering and may He continue to be evident in you and in your marriage.
Hugs,
Mariel
marieldavenport.com
So glad you will go through the book club journey with me, Mariel! And thank you for those words of encouragement and prayer. I deeply appreciate them.
Lara,
I want to thank you for this book. I have, day after day, to get my feet out of the mud of a long and dark valley right now, as my man has decided to stop loving (me and others, but specifically me). Your book is, of course, a gift of God. You, through the words in this book, help me to stay and live my love, for Him and therefore for others, including him, my man, (and myself…) when almost everyone and everything around me is shouting “Leave ! Live ! Stop considering Love as the big thing of your life ! Think about your pleasure, your internal peace of mind, about you, you, you and you!”.
God is our Lord and Savior.
I want to hear and follow His voice.
But I’m impatient. I wanted to read in your book an “how-to restore love in your marriage”. I wanted to find the key to provoke a miracle (even though you said it was not such a book, of course).
I understand that it would have been the exact opposite of Faith : either I place myself in His hands, and stop wanting tools to be my own miracle provoking deity ; or I don’t place myself in His hands and then all the work is mine and I need those tools…
You’ve helped me realise that I want to put myself in His hands, that I’m ready for it, that I long for it. And that whenever I really abandon me in His hands, with real faith, He answers me oh so sweetly and marvelously ! And not by providing me an instant lift out of my valley to install me like a small deity on top of a sunny mountaintop !! But by helping me construct myself and my Love and my Faith while in my valley.
It will take the time it will take. It’ll bring me (and my man) where it will bring me (and him) (and us). But it will be, and your book helped me realize (or sometimes, when the hurt is too much present in my flesh, hope for) it, a fantastic journey, a beautiful and useful journey, of Love and Hope and opening of my Self. When I crumble in the mud, when my flesh longs for instant gratification and for fairytale like immediate miracles, which is frequent and oh so terribly painful, I look at Him and he smiles and helps me. Each and every time, as long as I have Faith in His love and presence for me. We are all so blessed !
Thank you Lara. I wouldn’t have been able to help myself and develop my faith if your book had not been written and made available to me, thousands of miles away from you, by God’s will.
I wish you a beautiful life, in Faith and Love.
And I will allow myself to fetch help by reading you on your blog and in your book whenever I’ll need it, each time the valley seems to tighten and close around me and I feel like there will never ever be the Light of God above me…
Florence, thank you for taking the time to share. Hearing stories like yours is so encouraging. God is gracious to use the words in this book to minister to hearts. Thanks again for sharing. Praying we continue to seek Him to be our ultimate filling.