Author: Carolyn CJ Jones
Publisher: Gate Lady Publishing
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0982635257
ISBN 13: 978-0982635254
"I can t find the right words to tell you how beautiful this book is. It will stretch your heart, affirm the staggering beauty of this world, and encourage you to realize that anything is possible.." Christine Bode, Book Reviewer. As a silver medal winner for world peace, this book is about emotional and spiritual healing. It speaks to you equally if you are a struggling soul embarking upon, or in the middle of, a journey of self-awareness, growth, and healing, and to you, the one who has been on the journey, healed, and now feels peace.
CJ Jones shares, "Getting the book's message into the world is my calling. It is my hope you come away from the experience of reading the book with feelings of hope, inspiration, and empowerment. May it become a constant companion that soothes your wounds and hurts, providing you with daily messages suitable for meditation."
Using titled photographs of wrought-iron gates she took, coupled with inspirational verses she wrote, this book's multi-award-winning author and photographer shows the path she took through a process of change from great despair and praying to die to wholeness and loving life. "Opening the Gates of the Heart" has a most unique beginning, one which the author believes was Divinely-orchestrated. Below in "From the Author," she tells the unusual and charming story of the gates. Here are two excerpts from the story...
"I spent hours and hours walking, shooting roll-after-roll of slide film. At first I photographed them for their beauty. At some point, however, they began to represent my heart, closed from life's hurts and pains. I began to wonder if others' hearts were also closed from pain and if that's why they sometimes do not treat others or themselves with loving-kindness."
"In November of that year, I began to prepare the gate images to be sold to galleries. Simultaneously, I wrote in my journal every morning. The two were unrelated. One day I wrote some words that described and gave voice to a gate's image which was far beyond the visual element. The image I titled 'Webs of Fear' only two weeks earlier was/is a photo of many backlit spider webs spun between spires of an iron gate. With thoughts of my despair, yet, no thought of the photo, I wrote, 'I have spent a lifetime spinning webs of terror and shame between the spires that stand as sentinels to my heart.' I was flabbergasted these words were written which so appropriately described the image I photographed 3 years ago! This prompted a search of my 30 journals, as I looked for anything I'd written about my feelings and emotions, ways to treat myself and others better, and principles of living. I ended up finding verses that matched roughly thirty titled images. This all prompted me to compile a book with the verses I'd written and images I'd titled. I began to match them up. I was in 7th heaven, engaging in my passion of creating!"
In 2010, CJ published her book. Since that time, it has been bestowed with multiple awards, bestseller status, and the silver medal for world peace in the 2018 Living Now Evergreen Book Awards contest. " 'Opening the Gates of the Heart' is my story and, thus, I am the expert on the topic of my evolvement from feelings of shame, worthlessness, and sorrow to ones of joy and inner peace. This book is about healing, and my story, although a valuable lesson for us all, is not the subject of importance. There are, after-all, many roads to healing and this is the important thing that matters. It is my hope the gates will help us all, no matter what our circumstances are that guide us to the journey... again and again."
Come journey through the gates of your heart. Gain the peace that is there for you.
Publisher: Gate Lady Publishing
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0982635257
ISBN 13: 978-0982635254
"I can t find the right words to tell you how beautiful this book is. It will stretch your heart, affirm the staggering beauty of this world, and encourage you to realize that anything is possible.." Christine Bode, Book Reviewer. As a silver medal winner for world peace, this book is about emotional and spiritual healing. It speaks to you equally if you are a struggling soul embarking upon, or in the middle of, a journey of self-awareness, growth, and healing, and to you, the one who has been on the journey, healed, and now feels peace.
CJ Jones shares, "Getting the book's message into the world is my calling. It is my hope you come away from the experience of reading the book with feelings of hope, inspiration, and empowerment. May it become a constant companion that soothes your wounds and hurts, providing you with daily messages suitable for meditation."
Using titled photographs of wrought-iron gates she took, coupled with inspirational verses she wrote, this book's multi-award-winning author and photographer shows the path she took through a process of change from great despair and praying to die to wholeness and loving life. "Opening the Gates of the Heart" has a most unique beginning, one which the author believes was Divinely-orchestrated. Below in "From the Author," she tells the unusual and charming story of the gates. Here are two excerpts from the story...
"I spent hours and hours walking, shooting roll-after-roll of slide film. At first I photographed them for their beauty. At some point, however, they began to represent my heart, closed from life's hurts and pains. I began to wonder if others' hearts were also closed from pain and if that's why they sometimes do not treat others or themselves with loving-kindness."
"In November of that year, I began to prepare the gate images to be sold to galleries. Simultaneously, I wrote in my journal every morning. The two were unrelated. One day I wrote some words that described and gave voice to a gate's image which was far beyond the visual element. The image I titled 'Webs of Fear' only two weeks earlier was/is a photo of many backlit spider webs spun between spires of an iron gate. With thoughts of my despair, yet, no thought of the photo, I wrote, 'I have spent a lifetime spinning webs of terror and shame between the spires that stand as sentinels to my heart.' I was flabbergasted these words were written which so appropriately described the image I photographed 3 years ago! This prompted a search of my 30 journals, as I looked for anything I'd written about my feelings and emotions, ways to treat myself and others better, and principles of living. I ended up finding verses that matched roughly thirty titled images. This all prompted me to compile a book with the verses I'd written and images I'd titled. I began to match them up. I was in 7th heaven, engaging in my passion of creating!"
In 2010, CJ published her book. Since that time, it has been bestowed with multiple awards, bestseller status, and the silver medal for world peace in the 2018 Living Now Evergreen Book Awards contest. " 'Opening the Gates of the Heart' is my story and, thus, I am the expert on the topic of my evolvement from feelings of shame, worthlessness, and sorrow to ones of joy and inner peace. This book is about healing, and my story, although a valuable lesson for us all, is not the subject of importance. There are, after-all, many roads to healing and this is the important thing that matters. It is my hope the gates will help us all, no matter what our circumstances are that guide us to the journey... again and again."
Come journey through the gates of your heart. Gain the peace that is there for you.