Broken Yet Beautiful
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Last published Fri, Mar 13, 2015
Sharolyn Rose Stevenson is far from the typical girl. How? Well here we go. She's lived in foster home after foster home since before she can remember. Her birth mother left when she was a toddler so she lived with an abusive father, if you know what I mean. Its the 6th foster home she's been in at 7 yrs old. But this one is different. They love her & show her God. Her life is changed. But at 16 yrs of age, & the recent split of her adopted parents, she feels herself slipping away from God & questioning everything she's believed in. Follow her journey & she finds that despite her mistakes & brokenness, God can use her beyond imaginable. Only He can make completely broken into beyond beautiful.
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