Just Who is C. R. Lord? 

On September 27, 1942, in the little town of Sunbury, PA a baby boy was
born to a very poor home and to a wonderful mother who was mistreated
by her husband.  For eight years the baby was raised almost totally by his
mom while his father was running around with other women, gambling
money away and in every way neglecting his growing family. 

At the age of eight years the boy was taken by his father, and without
his mother's knowledge, to Michigan with his older brother who had
Cerebral Palsy.  His father left both of them with a family that didn't want
them and left - never to return.  Soon another family from Michigan came
and agreed to take the boy as their child and his brother was left with the
original family.  Shortly after that, the mother found the older brother and
somehow got him back home.  The boy who went with the other family
lived with them for a year before his mother finally found out where he
was.  The people were sad because they had come to love him as their
own son, but they drove the long miles from Michigan to return the 
boy to his mother.  The boy went back home with regret because he
had finally found a home where he was loved and appreciated, and
now he had to leave and return to a broken home and poverty.

The mother divorced the father, and then followed a long life of big
disappointments for the boy.  When the boy was 11 his mother could no 
longer take care of all the children by herself, and so she made the decision to
put the boy and his younger brother and sister into an orphanage where they
stayed for five years.  Their mother had no vehicle and had to depend on the
kindness of others to bring her to see her children who were 25 miles away.

Finally she remarried, but the man she chose eventually became irritated by
parenting three children who were not his own in addition to a daughter he
had through the boy's mother.  He became drunk one night and attacked her,
and he was jailed and another divorce occurred.  The boy finished high school
and then got a permission slip from his mom to go into the Air Force when he
was 17 years old.  

In the military he learned a life of discipline, but he got romantically involved
with a beautiful girl, and when that didn't work out, he started to drink.  That
led to 12 years of partying which included 6 years in the drug culture.  During
the six years in the drug culture he met another girl who finally rejected him
which led to attempted suicide because he had wrapped his entire life around
his relationship with her.  He finally married another girl who attempted to 
kill herself by overdosing and she ended up in a mental institution.  Seeking
to find some happiness in life, he ran from Pennsylvania to Florida where he
landed in Broward County Prison on drug possession charges.  That, believe it
or not, was the best thing that could have happened to him at that time.

In prison he found only one book to read to alleviate his boredom - a Gideon's
Bible.  This led him to pray, "God, if you're real and you can prove it, I will give
you my life."  The rest is history.  The boy, now a young man, met Jesus Christ
and he has never been the same since!  C. R. Lord is that man.     
The Life and Writings of C.R. Lord
The book below published in
January 2008 comes from the
pen of that grown man who once
lived a tragic life of sorrow and
attempted suicide.  The author
is extremely grateful that the
Lord had mercy on him and 
gave him a wonderful new
life to replace the old one!

The Lord then gave him a pen
name as an answer to his
prayer that people would
see only the Lord through 
what he wrote.  That name is  

C. (see) R. (our) Lord 
From a Life of Misery to a Life of Peace
Isaiah 40:31