This blog has been created in January 2008 to continue to preserve and share the work of my father, Pat Mullins.

In 2000, after my fathers death, i had created, LAFPDL.com. Its original purpose was two fold:

1. to preserve the work of my father

2. to become a communication method for those people who knew my family to come and see the latest news on my sisters health, my mother, and the family in general.

3 months later, my sister died and so the site then changed its purpose again:

1. to preserve the work of my father

2. to archive stories, pictures and the work of my family

3. to promote the scholarship i had created in my sisters name at UC Berkeley: The Beverly Mullins Memorial Scholarship fund.

8 years later, the original sites purpose (LAFPDL.com) has changed and so i’ve created this blog (The Life Work of Pat Mullins) as a place to just host my fathers work. I will still have his work on my personal blog, but for those people that may not agree with information i write about on my personal blog, this allows them a place to come, link to, and download my fathers work without having to go through the other information shared on LAFPDL.com.

I have chosen to keep LAFPDL.com domain my personal blog, my family blog, because that phrase lives on through me, through our family and through others and i do not want it to only represent an archive site - it has always been a foundation for this family and so I have decided, with my mothers blessings, to keep it alive and active as my blog.

In 2005 my good friend Cris Mitchell started working on over 100 of my fathers talks, originally recorded on audio tapes from 1980-2000 and put them in digital format and cleaned up the quality of the audios. I owe him so much for doing that labor of love and i want to acknowledge him here. Those talks are on this site as well as on LAFPDL.com and available via mp3 format in the Life Work of Pat Mullins series.

As money allows, we will continue to have cris continue the work of cleaning up the old talks and creating digital versions of them to this site. When we do so, we will post a message sharing what has been added.

Enjoy. Be loved, -dianna

These letters represent a phrase my father referenced throughout his life to help people understand how to live. Below is a direct quote from an article my dad wrote, but honestly its more than a “talk” or a “lecture” its a way of life. It took me years to fully understand the power of the words. I would sit in my fathers office complaining about “this situation” or “that person” and he would just listen until i was done complaining. Then, once he thought i was ready, he would slowly start sharing with me in a way that i could *hear* him about how to get through the situation, how to live my life.

Pat wrote the following description of LAFPDL:
The letters are from six scriptures the Lord spoke to my heart that are His process of the Holy Spirit revealing jesus in us - to us - and through us- to bring us to an AGAPE love in any / all / relationships. (I use a New English Bible)

L = Love the command only He can fulfill; how do you do this Lord? What is the love you command of us? hear and do what I tell you by the power of the Holy Spirit. - John 14:34 & 2 John 6 & 1 John 5:1-3

A = Accept in the same way as Christ accepted us we must choose to accept each other. - Romans 15:7

F = Forgive unconditionally as you have been forgiven, and refuse to remember the offence against you. - Matthew 6:14-15 & Hebrews 10:17 & 1 Cor 13:6

P = Pray for those who presecute you pray for them and love them with my love by hearing and obeying Me. - Matthew 5:44

D = Do good to the people who are your persecutors & love them by hearing and obeying Me. - Luke 6:35

and the Lord said and if you will faithfully hear and do these things in the power of My Spirit you will experience the love I speak of:

L = Love as I love you (Agape Love) - 1 Cor 13 & John 14:15

- Jesus is Lord!