Avianna Lemonier's Blog

Today was such a beautiful day of Christian fellowship. God has really blessed me with my church home. I’m in awe.

“Now Scripture speaks to the issue of forgiveness. There are at least seventy-five word pictures of forgiveness in the Bible. I won’t give you all of them; but there are at least seventy-five of them. Let me give you a few.

To forgive – these are metaphors. To forgive is to turn the key, open the cell door, and let the prisoner walk free. To forgive is to write in large letters across a debt “nothing owed.” To forgive is to pound the gavel in a courtroom and declare “not guilty.” To forgive is to shoot an arrow so high, so far, it can never be found again. To forgive is to take out the garbage and dispose of it, leaving the house full of cleanliness and sweet-smelling fresh air.

To forgive is to loose the anchor that holds the ship, and set it free to sail. To forgive is to grant a full pardon to a condemned and sentenced criminal. To forgive is to loosen a strangle-hold on a wrestling opponent. To forgive is to sandblast a wall of graffiti, leaving it looking brand new. To forgive is to smash a clay pot into a thousand pieces so it can never be put together again. Those are biblical metaphors of forgiveness.”

From “Forgiveness in the Age of Rage”, https://www.gty.org/sermons/82-2/forgiveness-in-the-age-of-rage

Last year, I wrote up a post explaining why most of the books, writings and other content that I had previously released were taken down the year prior (https://aviannaa.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/why-i-took-down-most-of-my-books/). At the time, I stated that some things remained available due to the fact that they had been made in collaboration with other people whose hard work I still wanted to be seen. However, after praying and seeking godly counsel from other believers, I now understand that all this content needs to be taken down.

Because these things were created in collaboration with other people, their consent is needed to take them down. This is especially the case with the audiobooks that were released which, if I want to remove them from the Audible platform before a certain timeframe has passed, can only be taken down if both I and the narrator personally give our consent to doing so. While I have been able to get in touch with many of these talented, wonderful individuals to get their permission, I am either still waiting to hear back from some of them or have not been able to get in contact with them. It is my hope that by the end of the year, all this content will be taken down.

I deeply appreciate the work that each person I collaborated with did and the time and effort that they put forth. I apologize for the harm that any of these books or other content may have done in their promotion of false teachings and other anti-Christian beliefs. I pray that anyone who has been influenced by them would be brought to an understanding of true biblical Christianity.

I would like to offer a refund to anyone who purchased any of this material — especially the books which I had attempted to release for free so as not to profit off of them but which somehow continued to revert back to being available for sale after a certain amount of time. Please contact me at alemonier08@gmail.com with proof of purchase to secure a refund. I apologize in advance if I don’t get to your email right away.

God bless you.

In the past few weeks, God has been exposing the deep unforgiveness that I have spent so much of my life drowning in to me. He has helped me see the horrible impact that it has had on my life and on the lives of those around me. He has also helped me understand how Satan has both orchestrated this problem in my life and taken advantage of it. And in the past few weeks, as He has led me out of being bound by unforgiveness, my life and the relationships in it have changed tremendously for the better. In finally being obedient to Christ’s commandment to forgive, a palpable weight has been lifted off my life.

Due to Christ exposing my sin to me, I now see the harmful presence of unforgiveness, bitterness and even hatred in many of the things that I have posted online recently so I have been cleaning out my social media. I apologize for how any of my recent posts may have presented a stumbling block to anyone and pray that if there is anyone weighed down by unforgiveness as I was, that you would be set free.

Sometimes it even exposes itself in the fact that you are speaking about that person or situation at all.

One of my sisters passed away in July.

It has been so hard. I miss her so much – more with each passing day.

But something that has been comforting to me lately is remembering her laugh.

I loved making my sister laugh.

Whenever something silly would happen to me, I would immediately call her and tell her about it. If I saw something online that made me laugh, I would send it to her so that she could laugh too. When funny things would happen while we were together, I would turn to her with a certain look.

I loved making her laugh. I loved making her laugh to the point of shaking with laughter and being unable to speak.

There are stories that I would tell her over and over again because I knew that they never failed to make her laugh.

I wish I had just one more moment to make my sister laugh. I would do anything to have even a second to make her laugh one more time.

But I am grateful that I got to make her laugh at all.