I can hardly believe it is finally time to release my project – “A Testimony of Grace”.
This project first began as a collection of writing I thought would be called “Candles in the Dark”. Much of the writing from that time can be found in the chapter A Light of Awakening in the final book. Then, as I began writing more and adding pieces from my journaling during and after the 2020 pandemic, I considered a title of “My Melancholy Soul”. A lot of the writing around that time went into the “A Vision of the Future” chapter of the final book. It was such a soul searching time and created a number of vulnerable pieces.
As time continued on, I had a number of pieces of my general contemplations that I wanted to share. I had the old titles and a bunch of writing, trying to see how it would all come together. Then I began contemplating memoir (as written in one of my previous blog posts) and later transitioned to exploring testimony (also touched on in a blog post).
As I let myself fall into the idea of testimony, I looked at the pieces I had and tried to understand what all I had learned in the years I had been writing and journaling (approximately the last 9 years). That is when I realized that the testimony I had to tell was a testimony of grace.
Every midnight turns to dawn, if we just hold on.
From poem Not Always
Finishing this project has been a wonderful experience. I am proud of what has come together and look to it as an anchor through my future. I needed these words and the way they fit with each other. I hope they are now enjoyed by others as well.
This testimony is meant to be a reminder of self…I must be able to tap into my knowing, my knowledge of self, my truth, and pull strength for the road ahead
From the Foreword of “A Testimony of Grace”
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