Mother of Pearl

<p>Like oysters women often encounter unexpected grit during their everyday lives. In response God’s love and grace covers this grit and transforms the pain into a precious pearl that leaves a layered luminous lining within a shell: Mother of Pearl. This brilliant luster is strong lasting and purposeful—just like the love lessons and legacies left by the special women in our lives.<br />Mother of Pearl celebrates the collective iridescence of motherhood. Margaret McSweeney presents a collection of heartfelt vignettes from authors who communicate the importance of the unique relationships between mothers and their children between granddaughters and grandmothers and between children and the mother-figures in their lives. <br />These stories tell of the power of faith prayer and values exploring coming of age the joy of becoming a mother the importance of motherhood the ways to heal from a bad relationship with a mother and weathering the death of a special loved one. Poignant and thought-provoking the stories serve to inspire encourage instill hope and strengthen faith.<br />The proceeds from the sale of Mother of Pearl will be donated to organizations helping struggling women and children. The charities include Wings (Women in Need Growing Stronger) to help fund the Safe House in the Chicago suburbs and to Hands of Hope to help build wells for schoolchildren in Zambia.</p>Mother of Pearl celebrates the collective iridescence of motherhood. Margaret McSweeney presents a collection of heartfelt vignettes from authors who communicate the importance of the unique relationships between mothers and their children between granddaughters and grandmothers and between children and the mother-figures in their lives. These stories tell of the power of faith prayer and values exploring coming of age the joy of becoming a mother the importance of motherhood the ways to heal from a bad relationship with a mother and weathering the death of a special loved one. Poignant and thought-provoking the stories serve to inspire encourage instill hope and strengthen faith.The proceeds from the sale of Mother of Pearl will be donated to organizations helping struggling women and children. The charities include Wings (Women in Need Growing Stronger) to help fund the Safe House in the Chicago suburbs and to Hands of Hope to help build wells for schoolchildren in Zambia.