Lauren’s Monthly Update 7 August July – 31 August 2019
Hi all!
Happy Women’s Month beautiful people! An entire month dedicated to women, bring it on! I started off this month by interviewing some amazing women on my radio show, women who had so much wisdom to share and encouragement to give. As we enter the second week of August, I’m left reflecting with all this month has already offered up. Usually we think about our personal contributions, our life as woman, wife, daughter, sister and more but at present I’ve been thinking about the very real feeling of sisterhood and “women” – hood I have been feeling. Connection across distance and space. Being part of an active place of women – hood, where women are changing lives through living their passion. It’s a blessed reality. This passed weekend I was blessed to share the Word at a women’s conference out in Retreat, Cape Town. And this up coming weekend, while I celebrate Women’s Day, I am also celebrating my wedding anniversary. And celebrating the man who stands by my side, supporting and loving me every day. Throughout the month of August, I’m featuring women’s voices on my show, topics like equality, post-partum depression, persecution and at – risk women. We going to have an amazing time! Tune in at 729AM Thursdays at 6Pm. Thanks for stopping in!
Many Blessings,
Lauren
What I'm About
Speaking Out
I’m outspoken and passionate about the burdens Yeshua has woven in my heart, and I want to always use my voice for hope, truth and change in this generation. This calling is to “go to where the silence is and say something.”
Gender Justice
What if we lived in a world where women and men co – ruled and co – reigned, it’s a dream that was reality, right there in the beginning. My eyes have seen many things, and my heart has become connected with the calling for gender equality. I’m an egalitarian, that’s who I am!
Writer
The pen is a weapon, it has the power to overcome, to heal, to wage war and reveal truth. It’s a weapon of warfare, and we have to wield it well. At the cornerstone of my purpose is a calling to write, it burns inside of me.
I’m often thinking about women in history. The ones we know and the ones we don’t know, the ones lost beneath times sand. Last year, I stumbled across a short write – up about a historical film inspired by...
Today is the “International Day of the Girl Child!” And I was left thinking so much about the moment I “met” the fearless girl on Wall Street in New York. It was such a dream of mine to see...
I’m not sure how to feel. When someone shares their stories with you and it catches you off guard. The stories of sexual harassment and abuse within their workplace. Their workplace, a place people go to heal and be...
Lauren has been a freelance journalist and writer since 2011. Her writing focuses on story-telling, profiling extraordinary people, sharing truth, poetry and magical stories. This section features some of her latest contributions and past writing work. Take a look and we hope one of these articles will be a blessing to you! Lauren is a professional member of PenSa, and is a monthly contributor to Off the Page Magazine and Spice4Life.
There is power in a pen, it creates and can impact change.
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WordMothers Interview
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New Historical Fiction Book -By Lauren Jacobs
Shelamzion dreams of living for a cause. As a Maccabean descendant, her family had defeated the Greeks occupying Judea and had restored the nations independence. But her uncle the king rules with greed and selfish ambition, isolating her family from the people. An arranged marriage to her cousin shatters her dreams of purpose and her longing to marry Yaakov her tutor. Shelamzion watches her husband the newly crowned king, continue his fathers reign of tyranny. Lines are drawn, civil war spills blood on to Jerusalem’s street and Shelamzion is faced with personal loss and the desire to rise up and protect her people. But Yahweh has never chosen a queen to rule over Israel before, so will he do it this time?
Grab a copy of my new book, Shelamzion Queen of Israel, Published by Naledi Books.
