Download Ebook The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan
Think of that you get such specific incredible experience and knowledge by only reviewing an e-book The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan. Just how can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the finest point to discover. E-books now will appear in printed and also soft file collection. Among them is this book The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan It is so common with the printed books. Nonetheless, lots of people in some cases have no area to bring the book for them; this is why they cannot read the e-book wherever they want.
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan
Download Ebook The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan
The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan. Discovering how to have reading practice resembles learning to try for consuming something that you really do not desire. It will certainly need more times to aid. Furthermore, it will also little make to offer the food to your mouth as well as ingest it. Well, as reviewing a book The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan, in some cases, if you must check out something for your brand-new works, you will really feel so lightheaded of it. Even it is a book like The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan; it will certainly make you really feel so bad.
Reviewing, when even more, will certainly give you something new. Something that you do not know then exposed to be populared with guide The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan notification. Some understanding or lesson that re obtained from reading books is uncountable. Much more publications The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan you check out, even more expertise you get, as well as more possibilities to consistently like checking out books. Due to the fact that of this reason, reviewing e-book should be begun with earlier. It is as just what you could obtain from guide The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan
Obtain the advantages of checking out habit for your life design. Reserve The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan message will certainly always associate to the life. The actual life, expertise, scientific research, health, religious beliefs, enjoyment, and more can be found in created publications. Several writers provide their experience, scientific research, study, and all points to show you. Among them is through this The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan This book The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan will offer the needed of notification and statement of the life. Life will be completed if you understand a lot more things with reading books.
From the explanation over, it is clear that you should read this publication The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan We supply the on-line publication entitled The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan right here by clicking the link download. From discussed book by online, you can give more perks for several individuals. Besides, the readers will certainly be additionally conveniently to get the favourite publication The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan to check out. Discover one of the most preferred and also needed publication The Beauty Of Broken: My Story And Likely Yours Too, By Elisa Morgan to check out now and also here.
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.
- Sales Rank: #308561 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-10-08
- Released on: 2013-10-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
As CEO of a high-profile, Christian-based parenting organization, Mothers of Preschoolers, Morgan has operated for more than 20 years as an authority on parenting and spiritual transformation. At one time, however, she faced the prospect of having no children of her own due to her husband’s health issues. The couple opted to adopt children, a girl and a boy. Despite Morgan’s commitment to responsible parenting and Christian values, her children have faced difficulties assumed to be more common in dysfunctional families: teen pregnancy and substance abuse. By revealing her family’s personal challenges in highly readable accounts, Morgan shatters the myth of the perfect family. She also provides convincing testimony that accepting imperfection provides the surest means for fostering enduring love. This book offers relief and assurance for imperfect parents everywhere. --Susan DeGrane
About the Author
Elisa Morgan, one of Christianity Today’s top fifty women influencing the church and culture and former CEO of MOPS International, is a sought-after speaker, leader, and author. For more information, visit elisamorgan.com.
Most helpful customer reviews
35 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
A Necessary Book But One With Missed Potential
By Nathan Albright
This is one of those many books that is largely written by women, for women, and about women. In particular, this book is similar to the Ragamuffin Gospel in that it celebrates the brokenness of people and especially families as a result of this wicked and sinful world. My feelings about the approach of the book are rather mixed. On the one hand, it is very laudable that this book is so open and honest about the life history and struggle of the author and the author's family (hopefully they approved of the openness of the authoress, as that is not always something that can safely be taken for granted when one writes about the subject matter of this book). On the other hand, though, it can be too easy to wallow in the brokenness rather than to strive for God to help us become whole through His Spirit. This book at least strives to keep that balance, even if it does tend to lean towards the direction of a liberal and wishy-washy approach to godliness and the demands of the holiness of God's law out of a desire to be loving. This is an understandable bias, but not one I entirely agree with.
The subject matter of this book is very serious. The book discusses such issues as divorce, homosexuality, teen pregnancy, adoption, drug and alcohol addiction, abortion, and even death. There are discussions about ruptures in family relationships involving abusive relationships and serious sin issues, along with the difficulty people face in putting on a brave face and pretending to be righteous and that their lives are godly while there are a lot of serious and unpleasant issues being dealt with. The strongest aspects of the book are those which seek to make other people in the same position or with the same life experience as the author (and I must admit my own broken personal and family background are not too dissimilar from that of the author) relate to the author in a sympathetic fashion. This is a novel about reflection and building up loving relationships with others that are based on compassion and mercy and honesty rather than on agreement in doctrinal or behavioral matters.
The organization of the book is a bit unbalanced. The first section talks about the author's broken families, expands that to human families, and then talks about God's broken family, as a way of establishing as wide an audience as possible for reading this book (although the book would appear to presume a mostly female reading audience). The vast majority of the book is the second section, which deals with "broken family values" as opposed to the supposedly unrealistic family values that are preached in churches and considered to be an ideal. This section of the book was written with the intent to legitimize the struggles of many brethren to live up to the demands of godliness found in the Bible, and occasionally go too far in excusing the behaviors talked about. The third section, which is very brief, talks about the beauty of brokenness, followed by some relevant verses and rather emotionally reasoned quotations about the beauty of brokenness and the compassion of God on the broken. The chapters are generally ended by some kind of short and sappy poem or observation about the topic of the chapter written by the author.
Overall, this is a book that speaks to the immense and lamentable effect of generational sin upon our families that have been increasingly fragmented and broken as a result of the wicked behavior of parents being visited on their children to the third and fourth generations. In one sense, this book deals with an important subject that deserves to be mentioned. However, the book appears to be more interested in legitimizing the broken feelings of broken people (like myself, it must be candidly admitted) rather than looking to a way out of that brokenness. This book would have been more useful had it been more practical in improving the conditions of brokenness rather than simply encouraging others to feel better about being broken. We shouldn't feel guilty about being broken by the evil that many of us have faced since early childhood, but neither should we be comfortable in our brokenness either, seeing as God desires a better fate for us than to be broken forever. He desires to recreate us in His image, and put us in a place to where we can help others in a wicked and broken world. Hopefully we may all do a better job of both allowing God to do His work in us and being a light and example and model to those around us. The beauty of the broken, after all, is in the fact that God puts us back together in a far more whole and far more beautiful way than we could ever make ourselves or others.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
God can heal the broken places in our lives.
By Carole Ledbetter
By Elisa Morgan
Elisa Morgan is probably best known as the former president of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International, a nonprofit ministry, reaching over a million moms. For twenty-some years she served as a kind of "poster child" for the movement that promoted successful mothering and family values, while her own family experienced alcoholism, learning disabilities, legal issues, abortion, homosexuality, addition, teen pregnancy, infertility, adoption, divorce, and death. While she stood on platforms teaching mothering and family values, she worked to integrate her private world with her public world.
This is her story. She tells with honesty and compassion how her childhood family was a broken family and, as a result, she determined that her family would be a perfect family. It didn't turn out the way she expected.
She says: "There are many who are desperately in need of being set free from the guilt and confusion of the myth of the perfect family. . ." She seeks to destroy that myth.
The book reads as a memoir, detailing the "fractured family" of her childhood, her parent's divorce, her mother's alcoholism, her conversion to Christ as a teenager, her marriage to the stable and dependable Evan, who cannot father children due to a previous bout with cancer. Their children are adopted.
The book contains many lessons for families and individuals that are broken. Morgan points us to the love, forgiveness and freedom that is found in Jesus Christ.
Chapters on commitment, humility, courage, reality, relinquishment, diversity, partnership, faith, love, respect, forgiveness, and thankfulness, culminate in the final chapter on the beauty of the broken and "a beautiful broken legacy," lessons we can learn only through disappointment and brokenness.
Morgan's story reads as a novel, moves through a lifetime of sorrows, as well as joys, and tells how we can learn to trust God in our broken places.
An Appendix of Hope includes scriptures, quotes, and poems, providing great fodder for meditation.
Readers who want to know if they are "proud" or "broken" can find the answer in Am I a Proud or a Broken Person? How Can We Know? a beautiful piece in the appendix of the book.
Morgan reminds us that Jesus kept his scars, even after the resurrection. Why was this? ". . . He carried with Him remembrances of His visit to earth. For a reminder of His time here, He chose scars."
I received this complementary book as a participant in the Thomas Nelson BookSneeze program and I was not required to give a positive review.
Reviewed by Carole Ledbetter, author of Who Am I Now? Growing Through Life's Changing Seasons, published by WinePress in 2007.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Brokenness is Something We Can All Relate
By Andra Kee
I am twenty-two, just graduated college. I am not a parent, I've never been pregnant, and I don't have any kids. How could I possibly relate to a story written by Elisa Morgan, mother and former CEO of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International? While I cannot relate to specifics, I can relate to brokenness. In fact, I think we all can.
In her book, The Beauty of Broken: My Story, and Likely Yours Too, Elisa Morgan shares hope for those who have believed the "myth of the perfect family."
What I Didn't Like:
Actually, there was not a lot in this book I didn't like. However, within the introduction and beginning chapters she repeats the phrase "there's no such thing as a perfect family" frequently. I agree with that statement, and I am well aware that is one of the key points she is making with this book. Still, I feel she repeated the phrase so much that it lost its meaning.
Perhaps the only other thing I didn't like was how I felt she was sharing a lot about her daughter. I know what children go through also becomes part of the parent's life story--and I'm sure she received her daughter's permission before sharing--but it feels very personal. If I were her daughter, I think I would feel like I'd rather share my own story than have my mother share about my story. Though, I think I'm probably being a bit of a hypocrite here because when I share stories, often they include how other people have impacted me (including my family and situations related to my family). So, maybe I would have appreciated getting to hear some more from her children's perspective. I guess if they ever write a book, I'd be interested to read it.
What I Liked:
I appreciated her honesty. Elisa Morgan is one of Christianity Today's top fifty women influencing the church and culture. As a leader, it would be easy to try to hide brokenness. It would be more appealing to try to appear "put together," but I think it's a lot healthier to be honest. She does not shy away from some of the most difficult experiences she's gone through with her family.
I once audited a class (because hi, it included traveling to Europe) about how God allows suffering in the world. While I do not have all the answers, and I've not even found a way to reconcile how I feel about all the suffering that exists in the world, I know brokenness is a reality in this world. We are broken and have a bent toward sin.
"Our Creator God pants to bring his children into being, and then his heart tears in pain as we run, hide, and reject his love. Our Father God christens us sons and daughters and then releases us to our own stubborn ways but stands in the road, watching and waiting for us to return to him. Our hereafter God dreams of redemption, when we are restored to his original purposes and put in pleasant places in relationship to him and to each other."
Through Elisa's own story of brokenness, we learn that God does not intend for us to stay stuck in our brokenness. Even within her family, not everything has been resolved. The book ends with things on a happy note, but she notes her children's stories are not over. Her story is not over. Our stories are not over.
"As we embrace our own need for mercy, we can extend grace to others. While vibrant and full of life, the healthy family of today is also gritty and real, a place where assembly and even reassembly is required. When we are broken, we are right where we need to be before God."
When I preach, I preach a lot of sermons connected with a theme of brokenness. I know it's not always easy to hear or think about it, but it's real. I firmly believe it is important to share our stories--no matter how much brokenness they contain. It won't be easy to be honest. It's not easy to share the parts of ourselves we often want to keep hidden. But people need to hear it. People need to know other people struggle. It will allow for us to connect on a deeper level with others. Elisa Morgan shares on a deep level, and I hope that by reading this book, you find opportunities to open up and connect with others.
"I'm broken. God loves broken me. And he is re-forming (redeeming) me, making me over into another version of me through brokenness."
God uses our brokenness.
Now, this book is clearly directed toward mothers. So, honestly, I think I would have gotten more out of this if I were a mother. I'd recommend this more for mothers than non-mothers. However, I think we can all learn something from her story.
She uses a lot of scripture and quotes from others. In the back of the book there is even an "Appendix of Hope," where she includes poems, prayers, and quotes about hope. Overall, I think this book is helpful for understanding we are not alone, but we also do not need to pretend like we have no brokenness. There is hope, and there is healing. God has never left us, no matter what we have done or what others have done to us or have done that has affected us.
I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan PDF
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan EPub
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan Doc
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan iBooks
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan rtf
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan Mobipocket
The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, by Elisa Morgan Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar