While many have written on the subject of divorce and healing through adversity, few have opened their hearts as fully as Jeannie Keneley does in Beyond My Yesterdays to give us insight into the extremely private world of despair and devastation in the process of healing from abuse, betrayal, and abandonment.
Gleaning from the biblical story of the Woman at the Well, Jeannie paints a story of two women separated by two thousand years of history, but intrinsically woven together by one shared experience. As we look at these women, our eyes are opened to new insights and truths of the magnificent power of healing through God’s amazing grace.
As Beyond My Yesterdays invites you into Jeannie’s very personal pain, she is absolutely transparent along a journey that may shock you, but will most certainly leave you with insight and hope for you or someone you know that is traveling the very lonely road of healing from the pain of their past.
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An excerpt from Jeannie’s book,
Beyond My Yesterdays
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“To put one’s story onto the pages of a manuscript can be a frightening task, especially if it is not a very pretty story. One cannot change the events of their past, and even if they wanted to, it is those very events and life changing opportunities that cause us to grow and become more than we were yesterday. As we grow in our journey, we can make the decision to hide who we were in our past from all who would potentially judge us for our misguided decisions, staying safe within the cocoon of our comfortable worlds, or we can choose to follow the calling within us, to become transparent and vulnerable by stepping out in faith trusting that the path we have walked might have been for more than ourselves.
I am pierced to the core by the amount of abuse that we humans inflict on each other in this world, and empathize even more with every heart that endures living daily at the hands of an abuser. Words and actions can be swords that pierce the heart more deeply than any physical weapon or a fist ever could. Spouses and children are left reeling daily from being left to fend for themselves by the ones who swore to protect and provide for them. Divorce is rampant in our country where some statistics say that well over 50% of marriages end in divorce. If you are holding this book, it may be because you need to know that someone has walked this path before you, and that there is help and hope if you know where to look. Perhaps you have a loved one who is enduring the pain of watching their dreams come to an end, and you will pass this on to them.
Jesus told us that the most important of all the commandments is that we love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our minds, and that we love others as we love ourselves. As you join me on this journey, it is my prayer that you will know that I don’t share the details of my life for any other reason than to encourage the heart that needs to feel loved at this very moment. The players in this story are not important. The redemption of a soul looking and longing for peace is the reason I write, trusting in a God of new beginnings, that He will take this story wherever it needs to be heard, and encourage whomever He knows it will touch. My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will settle down over your soul like a warm blanket and wrap you in His understanding, love, and grace. May the words of my story, be an expression of His heart to you.”
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