Remember that 82,388 word, 100 illustration novel for children I told you about in my last post? I explained how it started as a much smaller book titled "Meet J.C." before things happened to lead me into a much deeper study, changing the title to "The Secret of Yahweh!"
I had so much fun writing that book. I was like a new child of God myself!
Looking back, this was another great learning experience for me. I didn't believe in the devil back when I lived in my own little unchurched world. I just thought this was it! We were already living in hell and negativity and pain was the devil. That was before I started working for God. Every negative force possible came at me to try and stop me from publishing this book! Everything went wrong with the formatting and my first copy made it out by the deadline of 07-07-07... but it was in terrible shape! I was trying to format with Word and use graphics in the headers and footers... and I didn't know anything about word processing at all! What an experience! Of course our new company took on the publisher roll and THAT was a learning experience and a half! Anyway, I started realizing there must be something very special about this book I was writing, because the stress took it's toll on me. I was beginning to cry over everything like I was having a nervous breakdown and I wanted to quit and give up SO bad— all those things Satan knows a woman with A.D.D. would do! My husband's congestive heart failure got worse and our finances fell apart. When that didn't stop me, I had my own $2000.00 trip (no insurance) to the hospital emergency room and found out I had high blood pressure and Diabetes. Since my grandmother lost both of her legs to this, I thought I should take it serious, but the medicine made me too sick to work. So I am basically on prayer and watching my sugar. I won't let it stop me! I have a promise to keep! Now I have these streaks of white in my hair from all the stress, but part one of the project, the first novel is finished!
"The Secret of Yahweh!" was finally ready to distribute by the SEVENTH revision! So actually the date of the story ended up in first print by 07-07-07 but the book finally came together the seventh try after that. This was not the first hint of biblical numbers in my life, our testimony is filled with them. So I was sure that this book was going to reach the unchurched after all. Hallelujah! God is SO awesome the way He works through us!
And here I thought it would be hard to tell people about Jesus if I couldn't sing it!
As I said in the last post; "The Secret of Yahweh" is a gentle way of teaching about Christianity and exposing some of the myths and secrets in the Bible that have caused so much confusion in our faith. I will not tell you the secrets in this book as it will spoil it for you, but it seems like the REAL secret is on ME! No one can determine an age group for it, and the fact that this book is attracting adult readers is unreal! It was originally written for 7-12-year-old readers with over 100 illustrations added so parents could share it with the younger ones, but I never dreamed I would be entertaining adults in this children's book!
When I asked God "Why me?" looking at this huge project He was giving me, and how much study I had in front of me to do it right, He answered "Who better to teach the unchurched than the unchurched?" If I can learn and get excited writing it, then other adults can learn and get excited reading it.
And what I didn't think about until now, was that God's children are all ages! What better way to brush up on your Christianity or learn how to become a Christian than with a children's book? It certainly is easier to understand than the Bible, since I can only write on an eighth grade level! And of course it is going to be entertaining, since that is what I am originally. An entertainer. (I am even taking a ventriloquist course now so that I can go out and promote J.C. Lamb and sell those books for Mary's Lamb Publishing!)
A second edition with a new cover has been created since the exciting news that this book is being enjoyed by all ages and read as a family. Also a new media release will go out the second week of June! "Lamb Chosen to Teach 100 Million the Secret - Adults Flock to Read Children's Book!"
Pray it reaches the unchurced families!
Lets get this little guy out where he belongs!
LeFerna Walch
Mary's Lamb, Inc.
http://www.maryslambinc.com
http://www.jclamb.org
