Download or read book Beauty in the Scars written by Kendra Lynne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken. Lonely. Afraid. We all have a story to tell! Beauty in the Scars portrays a woman's story from homosexuality, abuse, failed relationships, near death experiences, illegal activities and more to God taking every experience, both bad and good, and using it for His glory. God uses everything we go through to make us stronger, to build us up, into who He has created us to be. You will learn to forgive yourself, to love yourself, and to have confidence everything will work out for you. Life can be hard. Life can be lonely. But, we are never alone. Not when we have God on our side. Join me in my journey and allow my story to help you live through your story. "And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." James 5:15-16 NIV

Download or read book Beauty In Your Scars written by Jinia Johnson and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you through painful times and helps to understand the importance of appreciating your scars and seeing the good in painful times.

Download or read book Scarred Beautiful written by Andrea Casteel Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty and shame, jail and forgiveness. Andrea Smith was by all appearances living the perfect life, yet in an instant it all changed. Now, shame is her only company as she leaves her husband and children to check into the Pima County Jail of Tucson, Arizona, bringing to the forefront all the emotional and physical scars she has been hiding. From her first strip search to her final release, Andrea's honest, touching memoir offers a rare look into the lives of those who are behind bars. Scarred Beautiful eloquently chronicles her journey to find forgiveness and discover the good in tragedy and the beauty in her flaws as she learns to overcome shame and allow God to comfort her through the most unexpected people. And although her incarceration threatens to break her spirit, Andrea Smith emerges with a new perspective about what is most precious and cherished in her life. Her story is one of courage and faith...and the unlikely gift of adversity.

Download or read book Beautiful Scars written by Kilee Brookbank and published by Kicam Projects, LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moment can change everything. After being burned in a house explosion at age 16, Kilee Brookbank redefined herself and discovered strength she never knew she had. Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined is a story of recovery, healing, and hope.

Download or read book Beautiful Scars written by Tom Wilson and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm scared and scarred but I’ve survived" Tom Wilson was raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Hamilton—Steeltown— in the company of World War II vets, factory workers, fall-guy wrestlers and the deeply guarded secrets kept by his parents, Bunny and George. For decades Tom carved out a life for himself in shadows. He built an international music career and became a father, he battled demons and addiction, and he waited, hoping for the lies to cease and the truth to emerge. It would. And when it did, it would sweep up the St. Lawrence River to the Mohawk reserves of Quebec, on to the heights of the Manhattan skyline. With a rare gift for storytelling and an astonishing story to tell, Tom writes with unflinching honesty and extraordinary compassion about his search for the truth. It's a story about scars, about the ones that hurt us, and the ones that make us who we are. From Beautiful Scars: Even as a kid my existence as the son of Bunny and George Wilson seemed far-fetched to me. When I went over it in my head, none of it added up. The other kids on East 36th Street in Hamilton used to tell me stories of their mothers being pregnant and their newborn siblings coming home from the hospital. Nobody ever talked about Bunny's and my return from the hospital. In my mind my birth was like the nativity, only with gnarly dogs and dirty snow and a chipped picket fence and old blind people with short tempers and dim lights, ashtrays full of Export Plain cigarette butts and bottles of rum. Once, when I was about four, I asked Bunny, "How come I don't look anything like you and George? How come you are old and the other moms are young?" "There are secrets I know about you that I’ll take to my grave," she responded. And that pretty well finished that. Bunny built up a wall to protect her secrets, and as a result I built a wall to protect myself.

Download or read book Beauty Behind the Scars written by Latisia Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty Behind the Scars is an uplifting memoir of one woman's journey through an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis and a guide to help you heal life's deepest wounds. In late 2019, Atlanta schoolteacher and woman of faith Latisia Jones decided to randomly undergo a breast exam, after suddenly losing her oldest sister, and having her mother recently win her second battle with breast cancer.As the threat of COVID-19 swept our world, Latisia heard nothing back from her doctors and went on with regular life managing her classroom, attending church, and dating her boyfriend. But in the hot Georgia summer of 2020 nothing could prepare her to hear that this random exam indeed detected that she had stage 1, triple negative breast cancer - the deadliest form of cancer found in women of color.As we follow along with Latisia's journey from diagnosis to surgery, we get an upfront view to see if her radical decision to believe that God can heal her without chemotherapy will work, and how her diagnoses tested every relationship around her.But that's not all, Latisia takes it a step further to help you celebrate the beauty behind your scars, so that you are anchored in your faith knowing that you can heal from any negative situation that life brings.

Download or read book Your Scars Are Beautiful to God written by Sharon Jaynes and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical scars represent a story, a moment in one's life, and they show others that there is a history of healing. Noted author Sharon Jaynes shares with women how their internal scars—marks from past hurts and mistakes—also represent a story of restoration. With empathy, personal insight, and a best friend's gentle spirit, Sharon helps readers: recognize Jesus through their scars receive grace and forgiveness remove the mask and be real restore the broken heart release the power of healed wounds Encouraging chapters, inspirational stories, godly wisdom, and a Bible study guide lead readers to give their wounds to the One who sees their beauty and who turns hurts into hope.

Download or read book The Beauty of Broken written by Elisa Morgan and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find beauty and hope by facing and dealing with the messiness of family life. The family is an imperfect institution. Broken people become broken parents who make broken families. But actually, broken is normal and exactly where God wants us. In The Beauty of Broken, Elisa Morgan, one of today’s most respected female Christian leaders, for the first time shares her very personal story of brokenness—from her first family of origin to the second, represented by her husband and two grown children. Over the years, Elisa’s family struggled privately with issues many parents must face, including: alcoholism and drug addiction infertility and adoption teen pregnancy and abortion divorce, homosexuality, and death Each story layers onto the next to reveal the brokenness that comes into our lives without invitation. “We’ve bought into the myth of the perfect family,” says Elisa. “Formulaic promises about the family may have originated in well-meaning intentions, but such thinking isn’t realistic. It’s not helpful. It’s not even kind.” Instead she offers hope in the form of “broken family values” that allow parents to grow and thrive with God. Values such as commitment, humility, relinquishment, and respect carry us to new places of understanding. Owning our brokenness shapes us into God’s best idea for us and enables us to discover the beauty in ourselves and each member of our family.

Download or read book Show Me All Your Scars written by Lee Gutkind and published by Underland Press. This book was released on 2016-07-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herself—or when you yourself hear such voices? Addressing bipolar disorder, OCD, trichillomania, self-harm, PTSD, and other diagnoses, these stories vividly depict the difficulties and sorrows—and sometimes, too, the unexpected and surprising rewards—of living with mental illness.

Download or read book My Scars are Now My Beauty Spots written by Sonia Soneni Dube and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Scars Are Now My Beauty Spots is a picture painted to speak. Imagine the opportunity to follow the journey of rainwater as it forms puddles, watching it flow to nearby streams and dams, and eventually making it to the vast open shores of the ocean. Envision the breeze, sand, and sense of calmness...Divinity uses poetry to lure you into her world; a world with different pieces of mirrors, each piece uniquely reflecting fragments of who you are and shared similar experiences. In a world that one calls home, one has home-cooked meals, family cheer, and laughter but there is more when one looks closer. The book showcases the union of stories and poetry; it allows one an opportunity to watch spoken word become real. "All dressed up in our Sunday best, we crossed the main road and up the road we went. We took the first right turn and maybe another turn, then lo and behold we were greeted by big chains locking and securing the gate. My brother and I thought that was where our journey would end but to our dismay, there was another church my mother had heard of from another colleague and that is where we were now going."

Download or read book The Strength in Our Scars written by Bianca Sparacino and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You are not broken, you're becoming."--Back cover.

Download or read book Dare to be Brave written by Barbara Palacios and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bárbara Palacios, Miss Universe 1986, Miss Venezuela, and hailed by People en Español as one of the 25 most powerful and influential women of 2014, author and international speaker, opens her heart and shares memories and personal stories from her globe-trotting career as a public figure. Women want to know how to be a good mom, a good friend, a good wife, an excellent professional, and a woman of faith. The author fields questions about these roles all the time. Palacios uses each story as a stepping stone to teach about these topics. She also speaks to women about taboo subjects like domestic violence, facing failure, defending children from abortion, female leadership, and faith in God. The author chose the title of her book to tell women that they can and should dare to be brave and daring to defend values, principles, ethics, and virtues, and to unleash the potential of their talents. She also chose the title as a way of telling her reader, "Dare to discover who you are and be that woman, according to God's original design for you." Palacios wraps up the book by sharing the practices that have made her the woman she is, practices she hopes will help others. She addresses health, internal beauty, faith, and the leadership of entrepreneurial women. She closes the book by telling the story of founding her own organization, called Ser Mujer Líder y Emprendedora Está de Moda [Being a Female Entrepreneurial Leader Is in Vogue], and describing the conferences they have held since 2016 and that she hopes to take around the world soon. In this book, the author seeks to help women leave the past behind and focus on leaving their mark.

Download or read book My Scar is Beautiful written by Caryn Shender and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Scar is Beautiful is a book perfect for anyone, of any age, with a scar, no matter how it came to be. Filled with positive affirmations and colorful illustrations, readers will be encouraged to wear their scar with pride and confidence.My Scar is Beautiful reminds readers of all the reasons to love their scar.

Download or read book Beauty Marks written by Linda Barrick and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful healing journey, Linda Barrick applies the words Jesus spoke during His time of greatest pain to help readers transform their deepest wounds into their highest purpose. In one second, Linda Barrick’s life changed when a drunk driver slammed into her family’s van, nearly killing her daughter and leaving Linda, her husband, and their son critically injured. Barrick draws on her remarkable story of loss and hope to lead readers toward emotional, physical, and spiritual restoration. Everyone experiences shattered dreams and emotional pain. Some scars are visible, and some are hidden deep in the heart. Whether the pain happened yesterday or fifteen years ago, Beauty Marks shows readers that they don’t have to keep covering up their wounds. As Barrick leads readers through Jesus’s words of abandonment, forgiveness, and release, she shows how pain has purpose—and that God can transform scars into beautiful marks of victory.

Download or read book The Man Behind the Scars written by Caitlin Crews and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafe McFarland, eighth Earl of Pembroke--and twenty-first-century heartthrob--has secretly wed former model and tabloid darling Angel Tilson Angel has long been believed to be in financial difficulty, prompting feverish speculation that her marriage to the tortured billionaire is one of the strictest convenience.... Bearing terrible scars from his time in the military, Rafe rarely leaves his remote Scottish estate. And with the terms of this deal negotiated, possibly behind tightly closed bedroom doors, is Rafe demanding repayment--in kind--from his new wife...'

Download or read book White Tears Brown Scars written by Ruby Hamad and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color. Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep “ownership” of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women’s active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color. Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront. Along the way, there are revelatory responses to questions like: Why are white men not troubled by sexual assault on women? (See Christine Blasey Ford.) With rigor and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight. "A stunning and thorough look at White womanhood that should be required reading for anyone who claims to be an intersectional feminist. Hamad’s controlled urgency makes the book an illuminating and poignant read. Hamad is a purveyor of such bold thinking, the only question is, are we ready to listen?" —Rosa Boshier, The Washington Post

Download or read book Sea of Scars written by Adriana Mara and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you are drowning in a broken heart, how do you feel love again? Sea of Scars is the debut book of contemporary Canadian poet, Adriana Mara. Divided into four chapters, she shares a collection of poems on drowning, sinking, rising, and swimming in the sea of love. Based on her depth of personal experience in heartbreak, depression, lust, and passion, she teaches you to find beauty in your scars. You’ll feel and embrace your own experiences as you read these verses and find hope and excitement in the power of your heart.