Lisa of Longbourn was not born with such an outlandish name. Nor was she born long ago, so all the reassuring long-born married women tell her. Lisa is not really of Longbourn, of her home, or of this world. She is an adopted child of God*, reconciled to Him through the only and all-sufficient atoning blood that Jesus shed when He died on the cross to pay the price for her sins, and those of the whole world. She has been His grateful servant since 1990, continuing to live with her parents until the extraordinary man - whom you, everyone, and especially she can’t wait to meet - receives God’s call to take her as his bride. Until then she is not content to sit waiting, but tries to be busy educating herself:
- Through her first habit of reading. She can learn a lot through reading just about anything. Some of her favorites are the Bible, The Walk by Michael Card, Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Long War Against God by Henry Morris. She also loves to learn online.
- Through receiving the discipleship of mature Christian women she has met, including her mother.
- Through serving in ministries like Awana, prayer, discipleship, abortion protests, teaching Sunday school, serving in the church nursery, being a friend, and blogging.
- Through practicing craftsmanship, creativity, marketing, accounting, and web page design for her business: LadyofLongbourn.com
- Through blogging, and more importantly writing, in preparation to publish one, two, three, or more books.
Her education is all of life, and Lisa is inviting you to join her, to watch, or to participate in her education on her blog.
*I “have a glorious, infinitely beautiful Savior who offered his life as a ransom for [my] sins so that [I] might behold [my] God in all his majesty and enjoy him forever.”
To God be all glory.
PS: A lot of people find this page by searching for the meaning of the name “Lisa.” Since it is my name, I happen to know, so I might as well help you out. Lisa is derived from Elisabeth, a biblical name of the mother of John the Baptist. Her name was a Greek rendition of the Hebrew Elisheba, who was the wife of Aaron. The name is a compound of El, which means God, and sheba, which is translated oath or promise. Sheba actually is the Hebrew for seven, and thus means fullness, perfection, or completion. The idea, then, is that when God says something, it is guaranteed to come to completion. Word order being up for grabs in names, it can mean “to whom God is the oath” or “he who swears by God”=worshiper of God. In the context of the Bible, Elisabeth was a woman who received a miraculous son as the result of God’s promise. Her son, John the Baptist, hailed the coming of the Child of Promise, Jesus the Messiah.
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Lisa,
I’m delighted to have found your blog!! I posted a long-winded comment on your post about Government being too Big and asking what the Presidential candidates could do to earn our vote. Unfortunately they have to do an awful lot more than any of them are doing !
I too try to organize my thoughts by writing–I began with lined tablets and No 2 pencils, moved on to typewriters, and now revel in the freedom and ease of word processors. I have been a student of the big questions re. history and politics and economics and spent the last four years developing a comprehensive history of the rise and fall of nations, and specifically seeking answers: why did only a few nations prosper, and why did most of the others stagnate. My book COMMON GENIUS presents the theory based on this work.
I mention it to you because my research concludes that two of “the secret weapons” that helped a few western nations succeed had to do with Christianity and the empowerment it gave to both men and women. Christianity’s support of free will, personal responsibility, nurturing families, and forgiveness and redemption gave vital support to growing nations that was missing under almost all other faiths and philosophies of the Orient and Middle East. That is why I can identify with your “To God be all Glory!” And my chapter on how to help the people of the Third World nations should be “right up your alley,” so to speak. It talks of micro-finance, the removal of governmental impediments to small business, and the impressive results of Grameen and Women’s World Bank in establishing responsible entrepreneurs and helping them lift themselves by their own bootstraps. Surprisingly, the vast majority of entrepreneurs in those under-developed nations are women, and they are building successful lives based on their own initiative.
If you are interested, my book is summarized on http://www.thecommongenius.com — I hated to see it go to print because now I have to get started on another
Bill Greene