A Memoir Of Hope And Overcoming Adversity
A story of tragic loss and healing faith, Beautiful Ashes is the compelling account of Shelly Edwards Jorgensen’s quest to uncover family secrets and to survive the truth. After her mother’s tragic death in a house fire, fifteen-year-old Shelly is driven to seek answers. A silent witness to her father’s abuse, she fears sharing her deep-rooted suspicions in her alcoholic father’s role with authorities might risk her own life. As lies unravel, Shelly finds inexplicable comfort in hope-filled messages from her deceased mother, and unexpected answers to prayer. Though she attempts to flee her father’s home, she is forced to return as prosecution’s key witness against her father. In sharing what she knows with the jury, she loses both parents.
Desperate to be loved and have a family, she finds she can’t just walk away from her past alone. Time after time, God places inspired people in her life, who help her dismantle old lies and face lingering wounds with the Savior’s help. Forty and single, but finally recovering from her past, Shelly finds love. Handsome Glenn Jorgensen is everything she wanted, and her wedding can’t come soon enough. But when serious medical complications arise on her honeymoon, her faith in God’s goodness falters. Once more there are secrets Shelly is terrified to expose. Will she find faith to rise from the ashes once more?
Shelly attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she was the first female to graduate with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering. After graduation, she moved back to her home state of Michigan and landed her dream job as a manufacturing engineer to start off her 20+ year career for Ford Motor Company. A few years into her engineering career, she decided to go back to school to get her MBA.
Shelly has spent over 30 years serving within her church congregation and community. She has always enjoyed serving others.
Shelly enjoys wood working and has amassed a workshop of her dreams. She also enjoys being outside in the fresh air, trail riding in her ATV and enjoying the Great Lakes boating & jet skiing.
Shelly is happily married to her husband Glenn. She is the step-mother of four children, grandmother of two and adored aunt of many!
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Finding Faith In The Ashes
Shelly never set out to write a book, surviving life was her goal.
Rebecca always dreamed of writing a life-altering book but never found her story.
Shortly after meeting at a wedding, we became friends, never guessing our paths had been altered for the better. Funny how small transformative moments can be.
We offer Beautiful Ashes to those who have been victims of abuse, domestic violence, rape, tragic loss, or any flavor of life’s overwhelming adversities — those who have lost hold of hope. Flames may devour and evil wound you, but you are never alone and always loved. Walk with us out of the shadows and find peace and light.
First, I want to thank Shelly Edwards Jorgensen, Books Go Social and NetGalley for this book so I may provide you with this review.
WOW! Shelly Edwards Jorgensen needs to be commended for being brave and sharing her heartbreaking story in Beautiful Ashes A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and One Woman's Search for Peace. Even though her story was hard to read at times it was beautifully written. This is definitely a book that should go onto your TBR list as it is a 5 star read.
Shelly dedicates this book to her amazing and loving mother, who sacrificed all she had to support her in her life goals. She inspired her to write this book to help others overcome the adversity in their lives.
My heart went out to Shelly for all the pain, heartbreak and tragic loss. Nobody should have to go through all that she endured. However, it made her a stronger person and the woman she is today.
Shelly’s book touches on some very important issues such as violence, rape, abuse, alcoholism, etc.
Many times in the book I became livid with some of the characters and their actions to the extreme where I was yelling at my Kindle.
I loved how Shelly incorporated pictures of herself and family members in Beautiful Ashes. It made the story even more personal and we could put names with faces.
Even in the darkness there was light. Many times I couldn’t help but smile ear to ear. Her Mom said that everything was going to be ok and it was.
Shelly wrote this book because she is at a point in her life where she wants to help others. It has been a long road for her however she has learned and grown in ways unimaginable. Now her focus is on helping others gain the knowledge and understanding that she has and hopefully help people find their path to healing and happiness.
Shelly’s wish is that her message reaches the bruised and heavy hearts of fellow survivors.
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