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Leaping off a Cliff to Avoid God--Not Recommended

Fay Lamb is my guest today. She fought against the very career that would bring her happiness until one day after her grandmother passed away. Not Recommended: Flinging Yourself Off a Cliff  to Avoid God's Will God does work in mysterious ways, but one secret He has never kept from me is His plan for me to write for Him. Well, let me rephrase that…I’ve never doubted I would write. Even when I wanted to throw it all away, I understood that words were in my blood and characters were my best friends. And then one day following the loss of maybe the dearest person in my life—my grandmother, God whispered in my ear and said, “You will write for Me.” I hadn’t been living a life that would make Grandma proud, and I surely wasn’t glorying God with the choices I’d made and even those I would make afterward. My life was filled with sorrow, pain, and grief, but God had a purpose for me, no matter how much I railed against it. And I knew it. ...