Connect Magazine Summer 2010 Womens

all those hours upon hours working together, she realized that what she felt for him was more than just friendship.

On the day that she confessed her feelings, James was relieved to tell her that he felt the same way. By August, they were engaged.

As she had in summers past, Cara Linn came back to Amarillo to conduct classes for friends, acquaintances and others who had heard about her work through word of mouth. On that trip, Amarillo felt more like home than it had at any time in the last five years.

And strangely, when she got back to the City—the place that had ignited her dreams—it no longer felt like home at all.

James agreed—the Lord was calling them both back to Amarillo. They left New York City in early November, 2009, and later that month they were married at the Amarillo House of Prayer. As a wedding gift, Cara Linn’s sister offered to plan the entire wedding. All Cara Linn had to do—naturally—was bake the wedding cake. (To see pictures of the wedding cake and groom’s cake, go to caralinn–thesweetlife.blogspot.com.)

So Cara Linn, Inc. has set up shop in Amarillo, using extra space James purchased for the family business long before he knew he would have a cakedesigner wife who would need it. Just as she did in New York City, Cara Linn holds cake-decorating classes and sells custom cakes and sweet treats (think cheesecake lollipops—yum!) for special occasions.

Cara Linn loves what she does, and her goal in all of it is to encourage and inspire her clients, students, friends, readers—pretty much everyone she comes in contact with—to live from what she likes to call “the sweet spot,” that place in the center of God’s purpose and calling. It’s easy to see that Cara Linn has found her sweet spot, not just because her dreams are coming true, but because she operates from a heart knit to Jesus’, a heart that hears His voice and obeys.

And, for all of us, that is the sweetest spot of all.

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