A testimony of author Lisa Marie's life and her struggles through her first fifty years, Created to Serve God narrates a story about family, dysfunction, death, forgiveness, healing, deliverance, breaking generational curses, and love. It's about Lisa Marie's journey to accepting and understanding the depth of God's love and forgiveness, a revelation that helped her to love and to forgive herself completely.

In this memoir, Lisa Marie chronicles her life beginning from her birth and early childhood memories, to the adolescent and teenage years, to the young adult and...

Pursuing God's grace can take nearly a lifetime, and sometimes we do not know where or when it will begin to show itself. The first two quarters of my life had been consumed with a quest for peace, happiness, but more importantly, grace. What I didn't realize until most recently is that all three of these were always well within my grasp, much closer than I ever realized. I was given the same opportunities, and I possessed some of the same qualities as many others that I knew.

Was I at the top of my class? No. However, I did graduate with honors, but I chose to stop my education...