LLANO GOLD is a book for young adults in the midst of launching their lives' adventures. It is a story of consequences resulting from choices and commitments made with care, sometimes careless, reasoning. The story is universal. Told initially as a desire to share treasured family stories of pioneers of great courage who settled the vast plain known as the Llano Estacado, the author envisioned a thoroughly objective, historical account of Christian courage with God as the silent, central character. In an effort to include her personal testimony, the manuscript took on an unexplainable energy of its own as the Holy Spirit began to write the chapters. It becomes the story of universal man or woman who, forsaking the world, chooses God. The first section "Trumpets" speaks of perils and pitfalls while coming to a knowledge of the truth. "Transformation," the middle and longest section, is the time of "renewing the mind" as one begins to engage with the Father in the events and advents of his or her life. Being transformed "into the likeness of Him" can be a quick work for some, but is usually a period of months or years as he or she eventually comes into "Triumph," the third section. These three seasons are parallel to the last three feasts of God as described in Leviticus chapter 23: Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. It is the story of Revelation, Redemption and Restoration as one daughter of the King of Kings lived it out in her generation on the High Plains of Texas and many other places.
