"Slow down. Calm your mind. Focus your attention. Come to Jesus,
and let His palms lift your heart."
-Jeff Saltzmann, Senior Pastor at Bethel Grace Baptist Church
Anyone who has suffered and survived an abusive relationship understands how difficult it is to hold onto faith while traversing the difficult road to freedom. LaVerne Otis is an abuse survivor herself and found her faith and freedom through God. With her God-given gift of writing, she now wishes to use it to help others along their own roads of faith and doubt, hope and fear, and all that the Christian life holds.
Inspired by Isaiah 49:15-16, Engraved on His Palms openly shares her journey through raw and powerful devotionals, poems, laments, narratives, and scriptures that deal with faith and doubt, joy and sorry, highs and lows, and pains and triumphs of living the Christian life. Including fifty color photographs taken by Otis herself and covering 180 different themes through her writings, many will certainly find inspiration and comfort.
Even through the doubts of life, even when it is unclear why God seems silent during harsh times, Otis offers a message of hope, faith, and assurance that God is always there and we as His children can always trust in Him.
LaVerne Otis is now enjoying retirement after a forty-two year career working at a major medical center in Long Beach, California. She praises God for sparing her life as she is a two-time colon cancer survivor, and thanks Him for her special talent for writing, having won the 2012 Long Beach City College Drury Award for fiction. LaVerne also enjoys reading, bird watching, gardening, photography, and serving at her church in several areas of ministry as well as transcribing her pastor's sermons.
