VISION #31: Final Friend? Last Lover? Whatever the title of my bestselling book, Matt Lauer will be interviewing me about it on the Today Show…
New vision.
Final Friend.
Last Lover.
Whatever the title, the new runaway bestselling tome has this premise:
What if you had a friend who didn’t fake you out, was true and real and always there to give you good advice?
Instead of guilting people into spending time with God or going to church, Last Lover will be a best-selling work that shows people Bible benefits — in an interesting and fun way that inspires them to hang out with the Lord and get advice from Him and more.
Not a fake feel-good tome telling everyone that life works just fine after believing in Christ — but a real and visionary work that present the benefits of being with the Mighty One in a new way.
Such a runaway and profitable hit will Last Lover be — that after I’m toned and tightened and lifted and lightened, Matt Lauer will come a-callin’ to interview on the Today Show’s most-watched segment that year.
Let’s give it a date of March 7, 2009.
May it be so in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
»»»»»»»» VISION #30: Paula Mooney wins Associated Content’s $5,000 Call for Content on June 10th!
I’ve written for Associated Content since August 31, 2006.
Wow. I didn’t know it had been that long.
Just like the Author and Perfecter always works it out, I first found AC nearly two years ago, exactly around the time both my kids were entering school — which gave me more time to focus on writing.
Back then I was just starting to learn about online writing, learning that people could make money online writing and blogging and such.
And Associated Content became a big part of the motivation that led me to think: Hey, they’ve got their own dot com — Why don’t I set up my own dot com and create my own content and drive my own traffic and make money off my own ads?
So I thank the Holy One for showing me AC, and using them as a stepping board to eventually create my own sites, like this one, wherein I write my visions — and thru the power of God alone fast and pray over them, for the ones He wills to come to life, and be a witness to unbelievers as to the strength of the Lord to answer prayers.
Not strictly petitions for fleeting, material stuff — although I’ll truthfully admit those are nice, too — but also for eternal things, like family salvation in Jesus Christ, and wanting to see a GooglePlex of people in heaven one sweet day…
Anyway, because I’d been so focused on creating content for my websites, I hadn’t written for AC in a while, but when I saw a $5,000 “Internet Week” focused call for content piece, I sat down and wrote about RedLasso’s lawsuit struggle.
I felt the power of God all in and over me writing that one.
It flowed.
And now shall the 5 grand flow into my PayPal account in Jesus’ Name by Wednesday, June 11, 2008…
It is so.
»»»»»»»» Vision #29: A restored, revised, rejuvinated childhood home that sells for $389,000!
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, I lived in a reasonbly nice brick abode.
My mother always complained about it not being good enough, so I didn’t really realize how good we had it till I grew up and heard about children who grew up with not enough food to eat.
So my elderly dad still lives in the home, and each time I go home, I’m cleaning and throwing away and trying to make it better.
It’s about more than just restoring the home I grew up in — the only home I really remember, since we moved in there in 1973, when I was just 3 years old.
Rejuvinating my childhood home to the place my heaven-living mom always wanted it to be is representative of changing those things in my life back to where I want them to be.
Restoring what the locust ate up.
Getting back double recompense.
So thanks to Him above that monies are available to fix up the old place — taking what shouldn’t have been and should have been and making it all better.
Remembering the happy times, forgiving the bad.
Vision #29 is for a rich new home that sells for $389,000!
Ameneth.
»»»»»»»» VISION #28: To lose 10 pounds in a healthy way and see the scale at 165 lbs.
June 30, 2008 Update: I’m down to 171 lbs - so it’s going in the right direction!
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body…” 1 Corinthians 6:20
I knew I’d gained weight.
So today I hit the scale and saw that I was 175 lbs.
At 5′ 11″ it’s not life-threatening, but it’s the weight I was back on the days when I got married in 1998. (I’m not posting that pic, but I put up this one of me in Vegas back in 1994, when I was around 25.)
I’ve been down to 148 pounds, and would love to get there again in a healthy manner.
Today’s vision sees me accomplishing this with the Lord’s power to fast and pray and get that scale down 10 pounds in increments thru…
…Him taking away my desire to eat so many sweets…
…Him taking away my desire to drink so much wine and pop…
…Him increasing my desire for healthy salads and sugarless cranberry juice and water with lemons and protein shakes and whatever else gives me a boost of good trimming down…
…Him increasing my desire to bike, walk, run, swim, whatever!
Thank You Lord, in advance for getting me back slimmer and trimmer and turning this fatness around.
Amen.
VISION #27: To become a cyclist … and fit into a size 8 pants again…
So I was pretty P.O.’d this past week when I couldn’t fit into a size 8 nor 10 in a few pairs of pants I tried on a Tar-ghay. That’s Target, for the non-phonic sounding readers.
My butt and thighs are kinda looking like that surprise photo snapped of Mischa Barton right now.
But there is hope.
Now is the time that all can be turned around.
Though I gave away my bike — I felt like God was saying give it away since I wasn’t using it, so it would prosper somebody else and help me in the process by gaining a different workout routine — my hubby still has his cycle that he doesn’t use.
(Hey, I’m seeing the “cycle” of giving here…)
So I pray that with it or another brand spanking new one, I will hit the trails, love it and take to cycling for hours till my thighs and butt look more like, like…something smooth and fine that fits in a size 8 or less pants.
Touche.
Thank You very much…
p.s. I hope this routine will incorporate well into something I can still do with my kiddies, or without them if need be. I know You’ll work it out. And work me out. Amen.
VISION #26: Write Your Visions Website Lands on the Front Page of New York Times … Gets Tons of New Visitors, Exposure to Book Agents Sparking a Book Rights Auction (Random House Wins) and Gains a Great Backlink That Raises Our Google Pagerank…
I’ve been fortunate enough to receive links to my blog from two of the net’s heavy hitters: Darren Rowse and John Chow.
Just imagine what it would be like to land on the front page of The New York Times, and get a good backlink from them as well!
Well, that’s what I’m doing for this 26th vision: Picturing this website on the front page of both the print and web edition of the newspaper so popular, some people just call it The Times.
I hope that mention inspires a feeding frenzy of publishers one up-ing each other till I get a “blook deal” — that’s blog-to-book deal — in the hefty six figures.
And we know Random House will win…I hope and pray.
And the link from Google Pageranked #9 site will help bolster this sites PR from 0 to 5 in no time, allowing me to charge a pretty, pretty plethora of money for ads.
Good ads.
VISION #25: Write Your Visions Website Soon Averages 10,000 Hits Per Day and a Growing Number of Returning Visitors Thru Word of Mouth and Internet Buzz…
This pic is of my current stats from my website about watching TV online.
I bless God for changing my whole philosophy on that one, including these tips that helped get the number of visitors up:
- I turned off the Feedburner email subscriber function because my email list had grown to over 6,000 people that I didn’t want to spam with posts. That was holding me back from posting.
- That also freed me up to look at it more as a video indexing site where I could post aplenty about anything I found interesting, and leave it to the visitors from Google mostly to find what they wanted.
- I finally got into a formula of putting Header 1, Header 2 and Header 3 tags into the posts - just Google it to find out what I mean about header tags, if you’re interested in gaining web traffic.
- And while you’re at it and if you’re using Wordpress to run your site (not the free Wordpress.com, but the Wordpress.org chumpie), Google the All-in-One-SEO plugin and download it. It’s cool and it helped my traffic.
- FYI - People love watching stuff online. Check Google Hot Trends for the latest YouTube thing people are wanting, and if it’s not porn — write about it. If you blog it right, they will come…
- Those cute little doohickeys I put in my post titles on WatchFreeEpisodes.com (got that idea from Blue Hat SEO) — those help you stand out in Google’s search engine results pages.
Whew!
So you can see how much work it can be to sustain some of those traffic numbers.
My vision #25 for Write Your Visions is that it soon hits 10,000 hits per day like my TV site hovers around — but with a lot less labor-intensive work.
I want WriteYourVisions.com to develop a natural buzz — because I’m not really SEO’ing this one (just Google “SEO” to learn the whole cottage industry that’s grown around trying to get to the top of Google’s results.)
I want Write Your Visions to get talked about and emailed about and bandied around in-boxes and Google Hot Trends as a result of the kind of favor that lifts up folks from obscurity.
I want Write Your Visions to gain a naturally high and growing rate of pageviews AND returning visitors, because people remember it and it inspires them and they want to come back to get ideas for their own visions that they want to see come true into fruition in their own lives.
It happened to StuffWhitePeopleLike.com…
It happened to Tay Zonday, Chocolate Rain maker…
It happened to Noel Gourdin…
I declare it is now happening to WriteYourVisions.com…
Amen.
It is so.
Be it El-Shaddai’s will alone…
ANSWERED VISION #24: A cheque from Amazon France in my mailbox…
Vision Seen on Thursday, May 15, 2008!
Just pulled my “cheque” from avenue de Friedland all the way from Paris outta my Ohio mailbox — bless the Lord!
I believe it’s no coincidence that it came one day after the Lord led me to get together four girlfriends and all of us do a 24-hour fast of water only, praying for breakthrough items on our list.
One of those friends told me about the Fasting for Financial Breakthrough
Now I know why the Most High led me to write “fast” above in the tagline description of this Write Your Visions website — I now understand the importance of fasting coupled with earnest prayer — and now I’m understanding the power of group fasting to get on once accord and in agreement and for more power to get Godly prayers answered.
Thank You, Jehovah Jireh — The God Who is more than enough!
I’m off in a few to get not only that cheque deposited, but more money He blest me with. And by the by my average Google Adsense daily income is creeping up to that visions amount! Yay!
I’ve written before that Amazon France does pay associates in the United States their moola…albeit with plenty of emailing and invoice sending.
Amazon France has sent me one nice cheque, now I’m ready for the next one to appear in my mailbox.
From December 2007, I’m due 165.32 Euros, which as of today translates into about $255 US bucks!
Suhweet…
They’ve begged my patience, and I pray that the cheque is literally in my mail person’s hands, carrying it into my black mailbox within minutes, and that I’m able to deposit it right after I pick up my daughter today without hassle and with blessed favor add 255 bucks to my bank account.
That way, I’ll be able to add to the tithe money I borrowed to pay the AMEX and give God all his due and then some this weekend…
“Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse,” He reminds me, “so there will be meat in mine house — and prove me now herewith, if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you will not have room enough to receive..”
And the best part, too: “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, and your fruit will not cast from its vine before its time…”
Sounds like Paul Mason the winemaker, no?
Visions of gold being continually poured out…
Anyhoo, I found this pic of liquid gold being poured out unto me, just like in other visions the Lord has been giving me recently.
And that beckons a little Mahalia Jackson, “His love for me is just like pure gold…My God is real, I can feel Him in my soul…”
I’ve got a feeling that the cheque from Amazon France is just the beginning of the gold He’s pouring out in this season of my life.
He’s telling me all the tithes and offerings sown since He compelled me to start giving to church eight years ago, starting in 2000 — sometimes hammering me over the head with guilt when I hesistated to give a tithe off my approximately $25,000 lump sum distribution check, the largest ~ $2,500 tithe I’ve given to date — but blessing me tremendously when I took that leap of faith…
He’s telling me that crop is harvesting aplenty…
And the cool thing is, that’ll just give me more good seed to plant in more great soil for another awesome future harvest…
Uh oh, I’m channeling KC and the Sunshine Band:
Keep it coming, Love…
Keep it coming, Love..
Don’t stop it now, don’t stop it no, don’t stop it now…
VISION #23: To create something beautiful that helps millions of people create their own beautiful things … that pays us all well as our souls prosper…
A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps, indeed…
I was poking around Google Images for a photo of a neat, rich and green lawn with neat, vibrantly-colored flowers (gotta have the color purple to notice so it won’t piss God off!) for this post, which in my mind, I planned to write the first in my “home repair visions” category.
Check back for that…
Because in Google Image poking, I came across this gorgeous sphere of perfection by DW Photography, worthy of all its pixels.
Beauty crowds me…
…not till I die, but even moreso after I die, as I always edit the famous poem in my mind.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Mr. Keats — and the ironicly blessed thing about seeing this pic today is that my daughter just handed me perfect sphere we call a “weed” in the front yard, in the cool dullness of the spring morning.
I studied its perfectly spherical shape, tried to fan it — even though I know that spreads weeds — but it stayed put.
How awesomely round and gorgeous.
How much fun the Creator must’ve had making this…
“Give me something…”
That’s what one woman demanded respectfully from Tom Joyner one morning on his radio show, seeking a consolation prize after losing.
The insistence in her voice and soul bespoke of an urging so, so…urgent…that Tom and his staff scrambled around to give her something.
That’s me today.
“What I am, what I’ve known…
…never shined thru in what I’ve shown,” Metallica sang so on point, that I can write those lyrics by heart without Googling them.
And yet, by Metallica expressing that creative angst, they accomplished the very thing they sang about not accomplishing…
The Author and Perfector of our faith works in ironies like that.
I love it.
Give me something!
So that’s my respectful prayer and vision today, thru Jesus — the Name that saves.
Yesterday I was kinda down and depressed and weepy.
Mainly because I’d read some excerpts from the new Hollywood down-low roman a clef, Hiding in Hip Hop — which I was blessed enough to get the dot com for.
I got my first $1 affiliate fee of the $15-something priced book, but after reading the excerpts, I couldn’t sleep the other night, thinking about getting paid to promoting smut.
I love to sleep, so I took off all my affiliate links to the product. And in place of ads, put up a YouTube video of Donnie McClurken talking about his own down-low kinda feelings…
It’s not the first time I’ve felt compelled to pull back off a product.
So I was kind of railing at God again — asking Him exactly what can I do as a Christian online?
I’m trying to walk that fine line of legality on the net.
Maybe that’s why He finally gave me the answer to that beautiful symbol I’d been seeing in my mind’s eye when I’ve laid before Him in the bathtub, naked and finally still, hands raised many times…
Thank You for the Upsilon, Lord…
Playing around the Visual tab on WordPress, I saw the insert character tab.
I searched around for the Υ shape I’d been seeing in my visions…
…and finally found the Upsilon, which amazingly means:
Upsilon is a word borrowed from the discussion of hyperspace.
Moving upsilon means moving from a lower dimension to a higher one. Imagine escaping from the dimension in which we are residing and start meandering through the untrodden domain.
The move from a lower dimension to a higher one can be likened to our creative process — both are groundbreaking and mind-blowing.
Upsilon bound…
Who could ask for a better definition of what’s going to happen in my life than that?
My Provider and Comforter and Lord and Rabboni knows exactly what I need.
And what you need, dear one reading this — You found this post for a reason…
He’s taking us higher creatively and jointly as our souls prosper in Him and His Word.
I need to get in it more and relax in Him.
Forget just writing about what other people do, I want to create something from scratch.
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Something beautiful…
Something I can hold in my hands…
Something with my name on it that I can point to God’s glory…
Something that pays very well and gives me time to relax and think and dream again without running around the net like a neckless chicken…
Something that leads millions upon millions of kids, adults, folks who have given up, people poised to kill themselves with gas and such to STOP THAT! and turn it around and go follow their bliss…
To follow that thing that’s been in them since birth, since they were 7 years old…
To get that thing in writing that makes their pulse beat, the thing they delay taking their preschooler to the sanctuary for because they’re so into it…
The thing that makes them look up and marvel that an hour has transpired while they were doing it…
That “it” thing for me is Write Your Visions…
I can feel it.
I pray it.
I love it.
I leave it in God’s wonderfully creative hands to bring into being…
VISION #22: A gorgeous author photo of me for my book jacket…
Since I believe a hardcover hefty Random House book deal is coming forthwith for me, it follows naturally that I’d want a fabulous author photo of me to grace the book jacket flap or back cover.
I love Barb Levant’s stuff, especially her black and whites, even though her color pics and sepia-toned images, too, have that special certain something that’s made me remember her name for years now.
So when that world wide web and book jacket begin begging for a cute pic of me, I pray right now that it’s an ethereal photo with depth and life and energy — something really special — beyond the flesh.
And, of course, as I stuff my face with mint Dibs writing this, I pray thru His power — and probably by the fact of knowing more exposure is coming forthwith, the kind that motivated Elisabeth Hasslebeck to train like an NFL player for the cover of that fitness mag after giving birth to baby Tim — that I’m somehow looking toned and tightened and free…
