I’ve also gotten “techy” and have a QR code you can scan right of your computer screen (and share with others) for a really cool ebook sneak peak of the book right on your phone or Ipad. here it is

Now I am waiting for Christmas 2011 to see what God does. But I picked up a homeless guy the other day and gave him a lift to the grocery store. In our talk about how good God is he said, “I have a word for you.” Really…says me…let’s hear it… He says, “James 1 Count it all joy when you face various trials and testings–Patience, people want a microwave world but God is using a slow cooker.”

It resonated with me and everything I was hearing from God myself as I spend my days with Him. He gave me a picture of a lump of coal in my heart and it’s the waiting that is the killer pressure that in the end produces a diamond of true character and true love for him. By the time the dreams come true, you don’t really care if they ever come true because you found in the waiting that friendship with God is the real treasure. Of course, I will celebrate the faithfulness of my Lord when the dreams and secret petitions of my heart are seen in the land of living, but it will be tempered with a realization of how it all pails in comparison with the time of spent waiting…waiting with Him.

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We are so blessed to be a part of this story. To think that God is going to use this book to touch the lives of kids yet to be born, and as message from Grandmoms to unborn generations…Thank you, Lord, you are more than good!

My wife and I stood there, fighting back tears, and thanked them–then the parents shared that they are going through some really tough times like so many others in this economy, but after reading, they felt re-energized to trust God to meet all their needs, they felt released from the pressure and worry and anxiety. Wow. We are humbled. The dad wrote this verse Mark 10:16 on the memo line of his check. As they walked out, my wife said, “Go tell them their money is no good here : )!” So I ran out and called their names…as they looked back, I just held the check up and tore it up. Of course they protested, but I insisted that they let us give a small gift back to Jesus…we had received so much more than we could ever count. We just want the “memo line”! “Then he took the children IN HIS ARMS and placed his hands on their heads and blessed them.” I’m so deeply, deeply proud to know the King, to know that He alone gives us this kind of life–”Better is one day in his courts than a 1000 elsewhere!”

The only way I could go was if I earned a full merit scholarship. But after so many years out of the classroom…the LSAT did not come so easy this time around. I didn’t do nearly as well as before, and I really thought I blew the scholarship–but NOPE, the Lord wanted to show me it is not by might, not by power, but by his Spirit!

At the same time, I realized he did not want me to think that I was the cause of the success of the book. Because I’m so focused on all the work of Law School (Stetson Law), I’ve had to trust the Lord so much more. If it had been published last year, I would be going 100 mph every day to churches, Christian Schools, driving all over the south…but like Gideon, who started with 30,000 men, and God sent all but 300 of them home, the Lord wants us to know that our Battles belong to Him! So climb on the Lord’s shoulder, and enjoy the ride!