[Home - PERSEVERE About Lori Laws - Ever try getting someone’s attention when they’re preoccupied with something else? What do you do when you have a really important message to convey to someone? What if the message is a matter of life or death? I believe with all my heart, this disease has been allowed because it was the only way God could get my attention. It slowed me down to give me a chance to evaluate my life, and get a clear perspective of the importance I was assigning to things. Before Jesus captured my heart, I thought I had captured life “by the tail”… I was wrapped so tightly with arrogance, self-centeredness, and shallowness. My outward appearance, how I physically looked to others, and accumulating a lot of “stuff” was how I measured my value and identity.]