Beauty for Ashes - Receiving Emotional Healing by Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer penned Beauty of Ashes as her way to share her personal healing story. If you may ask, Meyer is actually not that much of a stranger when it comes to acquiring negative experiences in life. And whether she liked it or not, these experiences brought her to a place in her heart where healing seems impossible. She suffered physical, verbal and sexual abuse for more than thirty years of her life, that it was a complete shock even to her when she grabbed her faith and managed to lift herself up once more with God.

Beauty for Ashes is a book that is dedicated primarily for victims of abuse. Through this book, Meyer states that the adversities faced by victims will surely change the way they look at themselves, thinking that they are worthless. But life must go on. Meyer talks about the course of her own life, highlighting the fact that she have gone through everything that these victims are going through. Then she moves to tell how through God, she found herself getting back and picking up where she thought life has stopped.

We may not fully realize it, but we all are a victim. It doesn't have to be a specific kind of abuse, but we all face adversities in life. And because of the pain that we harbor, we sometimes start to push God out of our lives. We think that we are going through the pain alone, but we are not. And this exact message is what Meyer aims to share to her readers. The past is gone and what was forcibly taken away from us at that time is lost forever, but we still have the present that we can use to reshape our lives in order to have a better future.

Also, Meyer mentions the point about wanting to revenge for all the suffering of victims. It is understandable how easy it is for victims to think about revenge and getting back at the people who have wronged them. After all, with their trashed mind and body, having clear thoughts is nearly impossible. But Meyer says that victims should forget about these thoughts, as only God alone has the right to punish wrongdoers

If there would be someone that could really talk about these sensitive things with utmost accuracy and empathy, it is a person who knows the true feeling of going through them. You will surely find it somehow sad yet still impressive how Meyer uses her very own story to construct the flow of the book. In three words, this books is honest, painful and beautiful. Beauty for Ashes is a must-read for everyone who is struggling to fight a battle with tragedies in their past. Grabbing a copy of Beauty for Ashes is one thing that you can do to teach yourself to heal and move on, whether you were a victim of abuse or not.

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