Special guest Tiffany Stuart joins me on at 1 p.m. Central on Tuesday, February 23, on “The Sisterhood of Beautiful Warriors” BlogTalkRadio show to share her moving story. Here it is in her words.

The call-in number is 347-850-8893. If want to listen only, click this url: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cwa-radio.  You can also go to this link to listen to the archived show.

Like many teens, Tiffany fell in love and thought she would live happily ever after. Then came a series of poor choices:

sex before marriage,

 an unexpected pregnancy,

an abortion.

Her boyfriend didn’t want the baby. She didn’t know what to do.

Have you ever been at a crossroads and all directions looked wrong? We all have.

While shame and self-hatred infiltrated Tiffany’s life — unwelcome and constant invaders that led to more poor choices – Tiffany found FREEDOM. Freedom to embrace the Lord, freedom to dance and sing and play, freedom to know she will meet her unborn baby in heaven.

Join us for this miraculous story of triumph.

There IS life after an abortion.

During my show I will have a book giveaway. I’ll also have one on my blog The Sisterhood of Beautiful Warriors.

P.S. If you are living the secret of abortion, I’d like to help you. I am a trained biblical counselor who has a big heart for hurting Christian women.

Welcome to Beautiful Warrior Wednesday!

(or Thursday. . .hey, no one’s perfect but God. Amen? Amen!!) 

Young, beautiful and spunky, Britt Nicole lives her Beautiful Warrior life out front and center.

I had never expected to give the Most Beautiful Warrior award to a celebrity but no regrets, friends. She believes God bravely and beautifully. And she’s gotta red car.

So what if it’s a clunker.

It’s a red clunker.

And she’s gotta map.

And she’s gotta God bigger than her fear, bigger than her dreams.

That’s how

the lost

get found,

right?

Beautiful Warrior, you too can change your world because Christ has changed you!

Watch Britt sharing Jesus at a gas station in her music video. Please pause my music player at the bottom of the page before you click the arrow. Treasure the moment.

You Are Beautiful, Lucy

Friends, join best-selling author Donna Partow and me on BlogTalkRadio for eight Tuesdays, beginning Nov. 3. The topic: Making Money from Home! Donna tells you the “how” and I provide the care to the participants. This Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern I’m sharing how to overcome your fear of failure and how to coach others to face their fears too. Join us! Here’s the link to the on-line radio show. If you miss it, you can catch a podcast.  

I turned my backside toward the bathroom mirror and peeked over my shoulder. Dimples? Lots of dimples. Ugh.

My middle child told me the other day, “I’m not pretty.” She is drop-dead gorgeous. Gray eyes that sometimes turn blue or green. Lashes that go on forever. In jest (but in all seriousness!), I say,

“Stop lying or I’ll have to put you over my knee.”

“You wouldn’t mom, would you?”

“Just try me.”

I smile big. She smiles big.

My eldest is 20 and, of course, gorgeous. Chocolate brown eyes, perfect eye brows, thick hair that she used to hate because it wasn’t stick straight. She doesn’t like how she looks in a swim suit. What woman does?

In my counseling, so many, many women say they’re ugly. They have a warped mirror. What about you? Do you embrace yourself, your shape, size, color, your uniqueness?

Please watch this short music video and listen carefully to the last verse. It’ll touch you deep. Turn down my music player first and leave a comment if you have a moment. Thanks.

Would you like my free eReport “You Are Beautiful, Seeing Yourself As Jesus Does”? Simply send me a message here and write free You Are Beautiful ebook.

You Are Beautiful, Lucy

Welcome to Beautiful Warrior Wednesday!

The other day I received a “Most Beautiful Warrior” nomination from one of my blog readers, Mary Dreisbach. Thank you, Mary, for introducing me to Leslie Vernick. She a champion against destructive relationships and is this week’s winner of the Most Beautiful Warrior award. Congrats, Leslie.

Do you a Christian women deserving this award? Leave a comment or send me an email at Lucy@LucyAnnMoll.com.

A speaker, counselor and author Leslie help women:

• Discover the courage to deal with destructive relationships.
• Heal from a negative self-image or poor self-esteem.
• Confidently speak thoughts and feelings in a constructive way.
• Encounter God’s peace in the midst of suffering or difficult loss.
• Develop the discipline to turn dreams and desires into reality.

Here is one of her teaching videos. It’ll help you identify whether you’re in a destructive relationship. It could be a husband, a family member. . .even a pastor.  

Leslie’s nominator Mary says, “She speaks out against domestic violence and destructive relationships and helps guide people to a better understanding of how to lead happier, godly lives by counseling with practical biblical truths. She encourages women to break the chains of destructiveness in their relationships. She has a passion to enrich the relationships in our lives that matter most.”

Visit her website and linger. You’ll find answers to lots of questions you may have.

You Are Beautiful, Lucy

Beautiful Warrior,

Fight for marriage. . .or else your loved ones will be hurt. Watch this YouTube video to get a real picture of what’s happening. Be sure to pause the music player at the bottom of the page, okay?

What do ya think? Not pretty, huh?

No freak-out, please. Don’t be a worrier; you’re a warrior!

Stand up for the sanctity of marriage where you are: at home, in the schools, in the workplace.

And in the voting booth.

Church too.

Single or married, guy or gal. Satan would love nothing better than see marriage between a man and a woman — as designed by God — go down the toilet. What’s next? Marriage between a man and two women, a woman and a cat, a dog and a man. Sick sick sick.

Remember, you can change you’re world because Christ has changed you.

You Are Beautiful, Lucy

Welcome to Beautiful Warrior Wednesday!

Heather is no weenie. A self-proclaimed “cancer butt-kicking, sometimes witty, mostly loved, mom of three and wife of one,” she makes a bold, I mean bald, statement.

She’s beautiful. Beyond beautiful.

I  met her on Twitterand adore her tweets. Seriously, who cannot fall in twitter luv with a Christian chick who loves Tuesdays, thinks Taco Bell is yummy, homeschools in her jammies, jokes about brain surgery and prays real: “Lord, help my attitude. Amen.”

Her honesty welcomes me. I wish she lived next store. Her website’s tagline: Its not about the hair. Its about the heart.

Thanks, Heather. I need your reminder of proper perspective. To you I give this weeks Most Beautiful Warrior award.

Here’s a bit of her story in her own words at Especially Heather:

What have I learned?

It isn’t about the cancer. . it’s about the journey. . It’s about seeing life through cancer’s eyes and being better because of it, being more whole and more alive despite it.

It’s about living.

Sure, there are going to be days when you look in the mirror and think “Who is that person, and what did she do with my hair?” But. . .it’s not the only part.

It’s not the defining part.

I am still a mother. I am still a wife. I am still a daughter. I am still a daughter of the King. I am still the same Heather that I was before I found out that I had cancer, just a little more a lot more mature and a heck of a lot less naive. I still have the same heart, the same dreams, the same desires. I am still me, cancer can’t take that away.

It only made me stronger.

You Are Beautiful, Lucy

Welcome to Beautiful Warrior Wednesday!

I met this week’s recipient of the Most Beautiful Warrior Award on sunny-outside, stormy-inside day. Knowing the economy had whacked publishing with a two-by-four, we writers made nervous talk while presenters smiled confidence.

Except Mary.

Mary E. DeMuth appeared real. I liked that. I slid into the seat next to hers and asked her to sign Daisy Chain. She scratched,  “May you find redemption in this pages.” Her penmanship lack perfection. I liked this about her too. Not a faker. Sweet. Maybe she’d tell me the truth. She did.

We spoke of publishing and of dads too distraction by depression to love their little girls. The allotted fifteen minutes vanished, and I found my next conference appointment, but I thought of Mary.

She makes safe places to chase away secrets, even at writers’ conferences. Among her first books: Building the Christian Family You Never Had and Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God. Tenderly, honestly, she says run to God, run, run, run. He is the answer. He loves you despite your secrets.

Painful secrets. Dirty secrets.

“You’re the first person I every told this to” secrets. Her memoir Thin Places, available January 2010, reveals her healing heart.

“For those of us who have survived sexual abuse, life twists and turns in alleys of confusion. Thank God He picks us up thousands of times, dusts us off, heals us, and enables us to continue walking. That’s been my story. I was sexually abused by neighborhood boys throughout my kindergarten year. That was nearly forty years ago, but the mark they left on me, though faded, is still there.

“Someday, when the New Earth dawns, I’ll be free of this mark forever. And Jesus will use every trauma to beautify me — not with the earthly type of beauty I sometimes long to praised for here on earth, but an ethereal, eternal beauty. I pray the Lord would truly, deeply use my own markedness to change the landscape of the Kingdom of God. In this way, I can revel in the mark, be openly cautious about the vulnerabilty the mark creates, and thank God for His protection and provision along the journey.”

This is the one-minute trailer for her memoir.

Besides her books and Relevant Blog, website, e-Newsletter, speaking engagement, and writing spa – whew! now I’m pooped — she has squirrelled a pearl: My Family Secrets, another safe place where you may share your family secret anonymously.

She says, “So many of us live with secrets that haunt us, keep us awake at night, or noodle their way into our lives. Some secrets are funny (think: embarrassing moments). Some are tragic. But many hold us captive. . ..That’s why I created this site. . . Because the truth is, despite the darkness, there is hope.”

Yes, Mary, there is hope. Thanks for your willingness to share, to care. You are a Most Beautiful Warrior.

You Are Beautiful, Lucy

Welcome to Beautiful Warrior Wednesday!

Do you remember the movie Miss Congeniality?

Sandra Bullock plays a bumbling F.B.I. agent who goes undercover to stop a killer prawling the Miss United States pageant. Though transformed from geek to chic, the agent as Miss New Jersey can’t stand makeup or swimsuits of evening gowns or high heels or up-dos.

She’d rather S.I.N.G., or strike the solar plexus, instep, nose and groin. Predictably, she catches the bad guy.

Watch it here or follow this link to watch it on You Tube.

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She’s Hollywood’s version of the beautiful warrior.

Diana Scimone is the real thing. She hasn’t beaten up anyone as far as I know. But she has fought mightily against the trafficking of children worldwide. Today people like you are chipping in $9 a piece to help reach $81,000 in one day to benefit’s Born2fly’s campaign to save kids.

It takes inner strength to love God and others. It comes only through the Holy Spirit. On our own we can do nothing.

Nada. Zilch.

“We love because God first loved us” 1 John 4:19. He loves you and me and even. . .Islamic terrorists and child molesters and the kid who called you names in junior high. Yes, even her.

And even child sex slave owners.

OUCH!

Diana demonstrates her love for them by putting them out of business, one strike at a time.

Solar plexis.

Instep.

Nose.

Groin.

Diana Scimone is our first winner of the Most Beautiful Warrior Award! You go, girl.

You Are Beautiful, Lucy

Welcome to Beautiful Warrior WEDNESDAY!

Diana Scimone is making history into her-story and your story and my story and, most important, their story.

Their story? A true tale with rarely a happy ending. A tale of deception and coercion and – sick sick sick – forced prostitution of children. This is NOT the movie Pretty Woman.

Far from it.

This is rape.

And beautiful warrior Diana Scimone is doing something about it. She began the 09-09-09 campaign to raise $81,000 to print and distribute illustrated books all across the world. All she asks you to do is give $9 — the cost of two Happy Meals — to her nonprofit: Born 2 Fly. And she asks you to tell nine other people about 09-09-09.

Send an email or blog it or nine of your best Facebook friends. Join the campaign here. If you want to win prizes, give your $9 on 09-09-09. Right now put the reminder in your cell or write it on a calendar. This date is exactly one week from today.  

Several years ago, while traveling in a far East country, Diana saw something that churned her stomach. She saw children IN A CAGE. Some were very, very young. . .think Kindergarten age. . .others a bit older.

I repeat: in cages in cages in cage. But why?

At the start of the “grooming” process — systematic abuse is more accurate — these caged child sex slaves learn what was expected of them and what happens if they fought back: beatings, starvation and worse. To their owners, they were money money money.

Disgusted? Me too.

A journalist and a Christian, Diana knew she was no comando chick, busting in like a Charlie’s Angel, shooting bullets, busting heads, and freeing the little ones. She had another weapon: her keyboard. She not only began writing and tweeting about child trafficking, she also worked with an illustrator to develop a book to tell parents of the tricks slave owners use to lure children and young teens from their homes and into brothels, all but guaranteeing an early death due to injury or disease. Yes, AIDS.

A common ploy is promised employment as a nanny or a secretary or a model. The parents want to give their daughters a better life, so they encourage them to go. Some moms and dads even get “thank-you” money. If only they knew.

Diana’s book lets them know and protect their children and

never ever ever live in a cage or forceably raped.

Never.

Please pray 09-09-09 into her-story and your story and their story.

“He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” Isaiah 61:1

You Are Beautiful, Lucy