Reaching for Brass Rings: A Poetry Memoir of One Woman's Search for Healing, Spiritual Truth and Self-Love
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478749911 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When she was seven years old while living in a foster home, she had a "spiritual experience," a conversation with Jesus. In her young formative years, Kimberly Molyneaux's life was filled with constant chaos, moving from place to place, having lived in more than sixty different places by the time she was eighteen years old. Even with having all the material things, a home, a husband, a family, a church home, she still felt like something was missing from her life. At age fourteen she had begun escaping and surviving these challenges by writing poetry. She asked Jesus the perplexing questions, "of who am I" and "why am I here." From that conversation, she came away with a knowing that she was indeed loved by Jesus, and she would never be alone, that Jesus, (later, she realized the conversation was with her own Spirit), was always with her. Kimberly invites you to take a peek into her poetry memoir, to feel her pain, feel her joy and with hopes that you, the reader can find healing and a sense of self as well, on your own pa. She sought out ways to feed aching her soul through more religion, shopping, alcohol, and various destructive behaviors. Finally, she realized that there must be another way, another path to find the missing pieces of her soul. Instead of feeling blissful, happ
Loved this very insightful book of poetry - sometimes sad, dark - would recommend to anyone! Amazing! I knew the author as a friend of a friend; and was told she had published a book - I HAD to get this book, knowing that her poetry was good; but heard this book was her personal journey from a childhood that was awful, abusive, and so painful - and I wanted to read her story through her poetry. I was NOT disappointed and would recommend this book to anyone - If you had a past as she did - this will give you insight into her poetry memoir - feeling her pain and joy. If you are . "sometimes reminding us of what it was like to grow up in another era" according to Christina Conner. Congratulations to Kimberly Molyneaux in birthing her first book of poetry based on the true life journey of her ongoing healing from child and sexual abuse. Kimberly has a way of taking you into the depths of her life experiences, allowing you to be brought back in time, sometimes reminding us of what it was like to grow up in another era, at other times heart-wrenching knowing that her pain and the pain of so many others who have been abused have had to make it through the storm. She