Two days before my 30th birthday my ex-husband left
me for another woman. The house was cold and empty and I thought I would never
be happy again. I didn’t want to live anymore and seriously considered ending
my life.
However, life keeps moving forward just as God’s kingdom advances
unceasingly. I now have two beautiful internationally adopted daughters, I work
at home providing broadcast captioning for television, and I just published my
ninth book as an indy author.
Never give up on your dreams—commit your ways to God and He
will give you so much more. If anything, I believe we make God too small. We
try to create Him in our image and then when our puny dreams aren’t answered,
we’re disappointed. Maybe we ask with the wrong motives at times, but more
often than not, God wants to give us something better.
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| Destroyed in the Earthquake, 2015 -Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Nepal |
Recently I took a mission trip to Nepal with my younger
daughter, Joy. We delivered a hundred pounds of books to orphans. God renewed
my spirit on the trip, giving me a more positive attitude toward life and hope
that no matter how wicked the world seems, His kingdom is moving forward. The
gates of Hell will not prevail.
God put writing on my heart at a very young age—but without great
grace, we can’t have great redemption. God surely had a lot of grace He needed
to pour into me. I was a wounded spirit.
The hard things in life God used to make me teachable. Only
when I came to the end of myself did I realize God really is everything He claims
to be—and much more. I am thankful for those dark, fearful, waters almost
thirty years ago. Without them, God couldn’t give me the books He wants me to
write today.
I am now working on the fifth book in the Seventh Dimension Series where all the
events from the first four books will culminate in a dramatic ending to surprise and hopefully satisfy the reader’s desire for a good story.
The process of writing puts me in the seventh dimension –
where God reveals Himself to me in ways I don’t understand. The mystery of God
keeps me from making God too small. If we don’t have hope that God can give us
our ultimate dreams, then we have made God a stingy God. My hope, satisfaction,
and supreme joy are wrapped up in my Lord and Savior. If ever I start to doubt
God’s grace, I’m the one who has moved, not God.
I returned to college at the ripe old age of fifty-five and
received my Master of Arts in Creative Writing. In the last three years, I have
won over twenty awards for my writing. My prayer now is to be able to write
full time and make a living from my books. In the meantime, I’m thankful for
all the opportunities we have to get our books into the hands of readers. Currently,
I am working to get my books into libraries. If I am successful, I’ll share in
a future blog post what I did. If I’m not successful, I’ll share anyway—no need
for others to repeat my utter failures, but I am optimistic.
I hope you will check out my new website at http://LorilynRoberts.com.
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Enjoy this quote from my newest book Seventh Dimension – The City.
“How
far Lucifer had fallen—from the throne room of God to the bottomless pit. Once
the most beautiful of God’s creation, now he embodied everything God hated—evil
to the core.
“A
snake-like tail protruded from his torso. The dragon’s grotesqueness was
magnified when he occasionally shapeshifted into the golden angel as God made
him in the beginning, if only for a fleeting moment, long enough to remember
the magnificent splendor he once had. Now a fallen angel, he was the devil.”
