By Kelly A. Williams
A Gradual
Redemption
Is a true story about seemingly impossible circumstances and the life changing impact an unexpected encounter with an unbelievable God has on a desperate young woman’s life. It’s a story that explores the outcome of choices and how through painstaking effort, faith can restore one’s soul and redefine one’s brokenness.
Chapter One - Redefining Moments
ABOVE ALL ELSE it’s the look in his eyes I remember. Not his bandaged, unshaven face, nor his medicinal smell that can still penetrate my nostrils if I allow myself to linger in the memorialized living room of my toddler home. I was three and it was Easter morning. My mother had dressed my sisters and me in the traditional Easter chiffon of most young Catholic girls, complete with white gloves and hats and the infamous black patent leather shoes shined to optimum brilliance. I desperately wanted to twirl, so my dress would flow out as the air got caught up underneath it, but instead I stood before him fidgeting, fighting to stand still. He was hard to look at, yet it was all I wanted to do. His eyes were kind, though his bandaged face frightened me. I didn’t understand at the time how sick he was. I was too young, and I certainly hadn’t yet developed the sense for picking up on the tension that hung in the room caused by his drunken behavior. I just wanted to twirl for my father, because in his eyes I would discover my own beauty, regardless of his stitched-up face and rank smell.
”There is nothing outside the realm of possibility— no story too grave, no decision too destructive, no life too lost.”
MATTHEW J. WILLIAMS
The Story Continues…
A Beautiful
Redemption
Journeying through heartache teaches a person a great many things. This is the continuation of one woman’s story where change and the unforeseen left her battered and aching, robbing the things she never surrendered and demanding what she never thought she could live without. Here Kelly details the trials and the lessons that came after A Gradual Redemption, setting an example in what she chose to do with the pieces she was left, but more importantly, to Whom she chose to look to restore them. —Anna M. Williams-Waninger
Author
Kelly A. Williams
Kelly A. Williams, an educator by profession, has been passionate about spiritual development and formation for most of her adult life. Through nurturing of her own spiritual roots with books like In the Shadow of the Almighty by Jim Elliott and Holiness, Truth and Presence of God by Frances Frangipane, Kelly developed eyes to see what God was doing in her own life and in the midst of her circumstances. A Gradual Redemption is the first in a series of three books that communicates that process and God’s gentle pursuit of His people. Kelly and her husband reside in Indianapolis and are the parents of three adult children.
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