Find Beauty and hope by facing and dealing with the messiness of family life.
Owning our brokenness shapes us into God\'s best idea for us and enables us to discover the Beauty in ourselves and each member of our family..
Values such as commitment, humility, relinquishment, and respect carry us to new places of understanding.
Instead she offers hope in the form of broken family values that allow parents to grow and thrive with God.
It\'s not even kind.
It\'s not helpful.
Formulaic promises about the family may have originated in well-meaning intentions, but such thinking isn\'t realistic.
We\'ve bought into the myth of the perfect family, says Elisa.
Over the years, Elisa\'s family struggled privately with issues many parents must face, including: alcoholism and drug addiction infertility and adoption teen pregnancy and abortion divorce, homosexuality, and death Each Story layers onto the next to reveal the brokenness that comes into our lives without invitation.
In The Beauty of Broken , Elisa Morgan, one of today\'s most respected female Christian leaders, for the first time shares her very personal Story of brokenness--from her first family of origin to the second, represented by her husband and two grown children.
But actually, broken is normal and exactly where God wants us.
Broken people become broken parents who make broken families.
The family is an imperfect institution.
Find Beauty and hope by facing and dealing with the messiness of family life
