L.O.L. the Language of Life: Learning to Laugh Along the Journey

By Lamont Lester

On life’s journey, you’ll undergo highs and lows and everything in between. These events give you lenses, creating your perception of good and evil. Based on your experiences, these lenses determine your language. In The Language of Life, author Lamont Lester offers a new language to help you translate your life experiences and guide you to your desired place in life—that place called purpose.

He introduces Map Language Therapy (MLT), a new approach to understanding your life as a journey on your own personal map, sharing how the fundamental principles are rooted in your everyday speech. You may speak of being stuck on a “dead-end street.” You might say you are “lost,” or it will be a “long road” to recovery. Lester shows you how to chart your position on the map of your life and gain an understanding of where you’ve been, where you are, and design a course for where you want to go. He helps you visualize, name, and shape the basic elements of the different pathways of an individual life.

Through Biblical principles and Lester’s personal experiences, The Language of Life teaches you to develop your language and create a map to unlock, identify, and walk in your purpose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664242081

Lamont Lester

Lamont Lester is a sought-after speaker and visionary leader who uses his experiences to help organizations and churches in Nashville and surrounding counties. His authentic, down-to-earth transparency allows him to impact and change the lives of people from all walks of life. His methods of “unconventional evangelism” impact and transform individuals who may never step into a church house. Lester and his wife have two children.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

ISBN: 978-1-6642-4209-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-4210-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-4208-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021915932

WestBow Press rev. date: 08/26/2021

Contents

To My Dad

To My Girl

Foreword

Part 1

Chapter 1: Unapologetic

Chapter 2: In Walks The Lion

Chapter 3: What Fruit Are You Bearing?

Chapter 4: Lamont Meets Brokenness

Chapter 5: Finally On The Right Course

Chapter 6: Crossroads

Chapter 7: Church Folk

Chapter 8: On The Road Again

Chapter 9: The Final Test

Chapter 10: In Purpose, On Purpose

Part 2

An Introduction To Map

Language Therapy

TO MY DAD

My father George W. Lester Jr. has been my biggest cheerleader from day one. The reason I wanted to dedicate this is because he’s not only that for me but has been for his entire family for as long as I can remember. George Jr., as many call him, should be rewarded for his tireless labor of love he continues to give to his wife, his children, and his grandchildren. Each of know that we can call on him for anything, and if he’s able to do it he will. That says a lot when we’re dealing with the most fatherless generation we’ve had in America. I think it also says a lot because there are several men that have no idea where their kids are or what they are doing. George Jr. keeps a close ear to the needs of all that belong to him, and I wanted to take this time to salute him and share with the world, that there is one doing it well and his name is George Wallace Lester Jr. I love you dad! Thank you for being you.

TO MY GIRL

This page goes to my Purpose Partner, Lovie Lester! You totally deserve a page for taming this old lion. Lol. Lovie you are the best thing that has happened to me since Jesus Christ, and I thank you for your continued patience and unconditional love that you have shown me over the years. We have been through so much together and seen the hand of the Lord move mountains in our lives. It has been an incredible ride and I can truly say that there is no one that I could have enjoyed this journey more with, than you. This life that we have built together is the more than I could have ever imagined. You were strong enough to endure the struggles of a young man with a vision, while he found his way through the wilderness looking for a Promised Land. We haven’t found it yet, but I can sure say that it’s a beautiful road that we’re on leading up to it. Thank you for being exactly what I needed to assist me in everyway that has been needed over these last 20+ years. I’m convinced that we’re on the right track and that our latter shall be greater! Thank you for partnering with me on this journey young lady. Now go ahead and tighten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride because we’re really just getting started. Love you girl!

FOREWORD

What if I told you, you speak another language, and you probably don’t even know that you do? What if I told you that language you don’t know you know consisted of a vocabulary that helps you articulate where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go? What if I told you that language could be integrated onto a map, a chart that plotted the positions