Shattered Makeup

Adrieanne Arnold

Description

“On the Other Side of Heartbreak,” is a raw look at the core and posture of your heart. Loaded with hard questions and practical change, we achieve internal liberty.
Once penned, this incredible read offers a fresh perspective on our minds, hearts, and souls. A changed life produces changed lives. As descriptive details about real time events on overcoming everything meant to taint what God ordained and spoke over our lives, our experience become catalyst for remake. This digestible read’s most important purpose and takeaway through faith and actions, allows the reader to reflect on their own reality of highs and lows life encounters and processes the journey as preparation for expansion. With great courage our expectation is the reader will draw their own conclusion about their own life, feel seen within oneself, heard by using their own voice, and not judge self by being vulnerable.

Sujets

• Christian Living
• Inspirational
• Philosophie et théologie
• Sencillo
• Friendship
• Forgiveness
• Religion
• Faith
• Family
• Heart
• Single
• Drama
• Friend

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664289420
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

SHATTERED MAKEUP
On The Other Side of Heartbreak
ADRIEANNE ARNOLD


Copyright © 2023 Adrieanne Arnold.
 
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This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-8943-7 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023900771
 
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date:  02/27/2023
Contents

Introduction
 
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
 
Conclusion

To the one who changed my life and made me realize, my life will never be the same without you.
Glory be to God.

Makeup- The way in which something is put together or arranged.
The physical, mental, moral character of a person.
A substance used to make something more attractive.
Materials used to change one’s appearance.
A special test for a student who has missed or failed a previous test.
Introduction
I labored over writing a digestible read with relatable context that ministers the core of my soul through my mind and heart. The birthing of newness broke up the stony ground that covered my heart. The breath of life flowed through the cracks of my heart. As my heart crumbled toward softness, the stones were slowly removed.
I refer to heart issues as stones because the various issues of my life made my heart hard. When you have a hard heart, nothing is going in and nothing is going out.
My book ministered to me as I wrote it. As a writer, you are required to go back to where you left off, to continue writing as each chapter is penned. You take breaks every now and again and come back to working, such as life. You work on life, and you break and come back to where you left off to complete what you’ve been tasked with. And sometimes I would go back too far, purposely, as I began reading, like a plane driving the runway before flying, trying to catch the rhythm and flow of where I left off, and getting back in the grove in order to keep writing. I wanted my experience to be as transparent as possible, so you can see the reality of life as a believer.
I reread parts of my expressed experience with God, and each time, it reminded me to never quit. What I’m saying is, as I let my writings age, the perpetual reexamination pierced my spirit as I read each word, even though I was the one who wrote it. This is when I knew that God would never let me release anything before I actually experienced it myself first.
Our experiences create a space to lift others up who may be going through the same thing. We may not all have the same story, but we all have the ability to lift each up from everything we have been through.
I’ve always tried to see beauty in everything dirty, murky, and muddy that the world deemed unfit, misfit, or unlucky, even in myself.
Out-of-the-ordinary things looked beautiful to me, like a piece of abstract art that looks confusing to someone who looks at it from a surface point of view and concludes it a mockery, but I view it as depth that elicits emotional connection. No matter what life showed me, this is how I viewed life entirely. Although I look at life this way, I still needed to alleviate myself from walking a path in life that I was never meant to travel. I was still going the wrong way in life and even though I was empathetic, that did not cancel out my life needing a drastic change. However, from the depth in which I looked at life, I always shied away from the natural humility, empathy, and compassion God innately wired me with. This is the part that God loves about me most, but not the only thing.
The unusual parts of life I saw as beauty, even if they were not the best places to be or the best places to see, sit, or stand. The life that I lived, where I went, who I befriended, no matter how bad the relationship, I saw beauty, because I had to. I had to because I thought to myself, “This is life, and there is nothing I can do because this is what I know.” But God had other plans. And at times I’d get mad at myself for not being the type of person to strive for more, for not wanting to take over the world and have everything my way, if you will. I hated that I didn’t have the desire or drive to be more than my circumstance. Or was it just that I did not know how to increase and come up out of what I had been accustomed to?
And just because I saw beauty in the lowest of the lows that did not mean I wasn’t supposed to look beyond or go higher in life from what I had already seen. You can basically say that I was content with striving for nothing. The reality is, some of us do this exact thing I described, becoming content with nothing, or we become content with what we fall into. Like falling into love with the wrong person, falling into the wrong friend circles, falling into the wrong partnerships professionally, and falling into various addictions. All of these falls eventually take God’s place.
We settle for what we believe we deserve, which is close to nothing because it is always less than God’s best for our lives, but God has other plans.
I didn’t know if my walk with God had the potential to blossom into what he promised, and I was curious to see how and why God chooses the most insignificant to display his glory. As each piece of my purpose became clear over time, it revolutionized my life as I knew it. Standing firm on what God spoke over my life, I went higher and grew stronger, as wholeness revealed her wings for me to fly.
I wanted this labor of love felt in a way that you as the reader could see yourself and receive revelation, restoration, and reconciliation with Jesus Christ for a bigger purpose.
Our journeys may not go the same way, but there is something here for you to glean and take with you as you go through life and rise to new heights and levels you have been charged to grow on.
My conviction is that you gain a restored mind, a fresh start, a new foundation, a new heart, or maybe identify a conducive perspective confidently. I am confident that you will wrestle with my writings and critique my writings on how you would have handled a certain situation, or even whisper about your thoughts on God and how you view him. This naked body of work transpired vulnerability, risk, and added layers to my life, giving me solidity in my character.
Coming from the table of my heart, these pillars of captivity rendered me to submit to my faith in God.
The explicit differences, devotion, commitment, toughness, long-suffering, and inadequacy of full submission to God made up the pieces used to mold me back together, rearranged. Nothing was the same after God performed surgery on my heart, mind, and soul. Everything in my life changed. My friends, my career, my address, my perspective changed, plus more.
Through the process of breaking through I became unrecognizable to myself and God gave me a new name. And although I gave a side-eye and second look at this restored person I saw in the mirror, this showed me that I was on the right track internally. As God used his paint brush to swipe on the foundation of the restoration of my faith, he patted in the substance until each blemish was concealed, hidden in his bosom. He carefully crafted and chose each color according to his liking and blushed each cheek with joy. He lined my lips with a smile and colored in the plump of my lips with laughter. He lashed my eyes with clear vision and highlighted my temples with glory, and what was changing on the inside started showing on the outside, as the glow of God’s glory invaded my heart. God traced the contour of my life, and covered me with a garment of peace and crowned my speech with praise. Sculpted by what he constituted for his construction, the clay on the potter’s wheel, a muse molded for his mastery as a filled vessel carried from glory to glory, my life became God’s canvas. I was willing and open to change. I did everything else in my life and had no success. I surrendered my life and I became what God spoke over my life. I became the purpose for why he breathed breath into my body.
I am as you are the clay on the master’s wheel, as we are willing to be framed with purpose for great faith and fortune.
Chapter 1

O ne thing I knew about myself that is still true