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Please forgive my occasional absence from blogging world over the past ten days.  After putting over 1800 miles on a rental car, I am glad to be home, but technology issues prevented me from keeping in touch with you as I have been through daily blogging.

Starting on Sunday, I will be even more out of pocket and disconnected from the world.  I covet your prayers.  I will be taking a technology fast of sorts while I spend 5 days at a cabin in the mountains for concentrated prayer and writing time for the 2nd book.  Some have teased that I won’t be able to survive 5 hours much less 5 days without my phone (no cell service) or internet.  I trust that God will fill those empty spaces and humble me through the recognition of how great He is.

The 2nd book is called Who has the last Word? Cutting through Satan’s lies with the Truth of God’s Word.  Any lies you know that need cutting through?  I’d love your input and appreciate your prayers!

God told Abraham to go to a land He would show him.  There were not a lot of details given along the way.  Abraham had to go on faith, trusting that God would guide him each step of the way, often only revealing a step at a time.

Exactly one year ago, I felt a calling like Abraham.  I was at Gulf Coast Getaway, a campus ministry conference in Panama City Beach, Florida, in attendance with a large group of our LSU students and about 1,500 other college students.  Sunday morning, there was a Taizè service (meditative and contemplative worship).  During this service, I was able to quiet all the other noise and focus on talking with and listening to God.

It became clear that in order to do things right and give this new idea God had planted in my heart a chance, I needed to step forward on faith and dedicate myself to Iron Rose Sister Ministries full-time.

Walking back across the bridge to the hotel later that night, I told my friend and coworker, Robin Gough, about my decision.  We had spent many hours in prayer and conversation seeking God's guidance for each other's lives and the LSU Campus Ministry.  I will never forget his response.  "You know how everyone was offered the opportunity to go and lay something at the foot of the cross in prayer?  I prayed for God to give you clarity.  Sounds like He answered that prayer."

I thank God for that clarity, for the loving and prayerful support of others, and for the opportunity to be a part of a leap of faith such as this is.  Thanks for joining me and so many other women on this journey!