{"id":4569,"date":"2009-06-23T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:01:46","slug":"restored-to-the-land-of-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/restored-to-the-land-of-the-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Restored &#8211; To the Land of the Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recall the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\/blog\/?s=lanessa+allman\">prayer requests shared for Lanessa Allman<\/span> last year (She&#8217;s Chris Allman&#8217;s sister-in-law and attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umhb.edu\">UMHB<\/a> with us.)<\/p>\n<p>Last year she was struck with <a href=\"http:\/\/thearmyofallmans.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/im-back.html\">encephalitis and several other complications<\/a> after giving birth to her fourth son.<\/p>\n<p>And now that she&#8217;s had time to heal and recover, she&#8217;s put her story into words and self-published a book, &#8220;Restored &#8211; To the Land of the Living.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/restored.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/restored-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"restored\" title=\"restored\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4568\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/restored-187x300.jpg 187w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/restored.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lanessa shares on her blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am SO excited to finally write this post! Eleven months ago, I went through a hard trial that almost took my life. As most of you know since this affected my brain, I wanted to write it down so I would not forget the promises and blessings I got from the ordeal. Plus all the lessons I learned about our Lord and myself.<\/p>\n<p>The book is now available for purchase, and before you order it, I ask you read this blurb so you will know the &#8220;mission statement&#8221; about the book.<\/p>\n<p>I liked to blog, and my writing extended to that before I had Clark about a year ago. The only other writing I might have done in earlier years is some prayer journaling. So, let me explain I am NOT a seasoned, or trained writer&#8230;I have not attended writing conferences, and I self-published this book to be honest. I have to remind myself almost everyday that I got confirmations on all my decisions and my husband was behind me every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p>To self-publish is to pay a company to design your book and print it in a book format. I did this with the full knowledge that I might never get back in profit what I paid out to the publishing company. And that is okay. I did not do this for that reason, in fact I want to give portions back to the church that did so much for me. I tried to keep the cost of the book down to a minimum so it is fairly small, thin and paperback. A mere $2 a book is my royalty, but if I just get one comment back that this story helped\/uplifted\/or inspired someone- that is my reward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to reading all that God has done in and around Lanessa through her life changing trials (and hopefully convincing her to share her story on our <a href=\"http:\/\/somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\">podcast<\/a>). I hope that through stories like Lanessas, we can continue to learn that &#8220;scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue&#8221; and that God is good &#8211; even in those moments of despair.<\/p>\n<p>To order the book:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/Bookstore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=62127\">Click HERE<\/a><br \/>\nOR<br \/>\ncall 888.519.5121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recall the prayer requests shared for Lanessa Allman last year (She&#8217;s Chris Allman&#8217;s sister-in-law and attended UMHB with us.) Last year she was struck with encephalitis and several other complications after giving birth to her fourth son. And now that she&#8217;s had time to heal and recover, she&#8217;s put her story &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/restored-to-the-land-of-the-living\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Restored &#8211; To the Land of the Living<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,18],"tags":[1374,2229,7,2230,2231],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-faith","tag-book","tag-lanessa-allman","tag-prayer","tag-restored-to-the-land-of-the-living","tag-thanks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11346,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}