My Beautiful Broken Shell: Words of Hope to Refresh the Soul

Dear Reader, if you long for calming words to wash over your hurting heart and soul, please read this little book. It is written as a journey to accept the pain and hurt of life. Those difficuilt times give us opportunities to experience God's love and healing, and to enjoy and receive the love of friends and loved ones. We are all hurting at some level, no one is perfect. This book advocates acceptance of the hurt and seeing how good comes of it in our lives. Joy abounds in this little tome. I found it to be so very refreshing and calming. I hope you will spend a little time to read and experience the feelings it uncovers. KT

When I wanted to share this wonderful little book with the women from my church I put together a program. I found about 20 pictures of the sea that I have taken and the same number of shells ( some broken ) I presented it like the books of our chilhood. As I read the book out loud I would, on occassion, say "pass" and they would pass the picture and the shell to the person next to them. That way they were able to visit the sea and feel the book as well as hear it.I have given many copies away. It is a great source of inspiration. My suggestion would be; share it!

I think this book is a great tool for hurting hearts. I am an R.N. and have a calling to comfort people. Sometimes it is hard to find the words but Carol so beautifully enables the reader to feel the pain and hopefully start breaking down barriers to start the healing process.I have a neighbor now disabled from M.S. have promised her I would visit and have tea. I have to admit I was apprehensive about going. I am now looking forward to our visit and sharing My beautiful Broken Shell.Thank you Carol for sharing with us so we can also share.God bless your work.

Carol Adams has touched the mystery and the beauty of the sea and the gathering of the treasures yielded up by the sea to the avid and ardent collector, in a unique and inspiring way, unequalled in my reading!I turned again to the pages of "My Beautiful Broken Shell" recently, as the seashore has been much on my mind and heart the last few weeks. I will soon be paying a visit to *my* beach and beginning my annual search for the "perfect" shell. I remembered reading her thoughts about the beauty and meaning of a broken shell she found on the beach one morning, and I was suddenly struck by the rich symbolism contained in her writing. I *am* the broken shell she found. I *am* the one passed by in search of the perfect. However perfect I began life, such is not the way to describe what I have become!She speaks of the shells that have been pounded on the shore and survived anyway. She speaks of their continuing beauty despite the broken, tattered edges of what remains of their former beauty.I think she captures the essence of the "changed life" in her writing. It is easy to see oneself in Ms. Adams' words and to relate events in one's own life to the broken shells of life's beaches.I find strength and new inspiration in reading this lovely little book with it's simple language and gorgeous illustrations over and over again. I have begun taking it with me everywhere I go.My appreciation for the book has grown by leaps and bounds with each rereading and I find in it today the same kind of awe and wonder I have felt in the last few days following the crash of John Kennedy Jr.'s plane and the loss of his life as I find in the words of JFK's speech on September 14, 1962, about "The Sea". Classic words from two very different sources. Thanks, Ms. Adams, for your work!!!

I LOVE THIS JOURNAL! The subtle, pastel backdrop of shells and shoreline, along with inspirational quotes and verses, really quiet your heart and invite you to write about your thoughts, hopes and dreams.