Beauty for Ashes: A Journey from Frustrated Expectations to Unconditional Love is a riveting memoir about a church girl's odyssey through love and marriage to a handsome charmer from another world. It is more than a love story; it is a collection of life lessons born out of hope, disappointment, joy, sorrow, trials, and victories. The journey begins when a starry-eyed Marilee has what she believes to be a love-at-first-sight encounter with an equally awe-struck Jacob. Despite their differences and cautionary beginning, they embark on a whirlwind courtship that leads to an ill-timed and tumultuous marriage, the joy of childbirth, and many spiritual lessons between their first hello and the atypical final chapter. Through it all, Marilee and Jacob learned to exchange their brokenness for the beauty of God's grace as pastors, teachers, mentors, and examples of unconditional love and forgiveness.
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