Beauty Grown From a Concrete Life: Blossoming Into My Greatness

Welcome to my site. I am Pastor Shirley Lucas Cain, author of Beauty Grown From a Concrete Life: Blossoming Into My Greatness published by Absolute Author Publishing House. I am also a Goodreads' author and you can follow me there at: https://www.goodreads.com/goodreadscomshirleylucascain 

I believe that there are many individuals out there who have experienced pain, hopelessness, and rejection - the same as I have. My primary goal is to let you know that there is hope, there is healing and people who can support and love you. It was not easy reliving the abuse I suffered in my life. There were times as I was writing in my diary, the ink was running by me erasing the words from my tears. I had to tell my story not realizing it was my healing as well. This is my expression of “Beauty Grown from a Concrete life” which entails the details after the trails and storms has passed in my life. Now I am sharing with you how I overcame the hurt and rejection, but in this book you will see my transgression turn to blessings. That is my motivation for doing  this book.

Where did you get the inspiration for your book cover?

My concrete life showing that beauty has emerged.

Who has been the biggest influence on you personally and as a writer?

I have to give the glory to God for the late nights and support from my family when I wanted to give up writing this book.

What were your struggles or obstacles you had to overcome to get this book written?

What struggles did I go thru? “Laughing” There are too many to talk about at this moment. I guarantee the book will tell you how something beautiful came out of a life that was so tragic. Let it be known that my biggest struggle was with Leukemia and having the strength to continue writing this book. It was the memories of old pain. I finally allowed myself to heal since I have finished this book.

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Tell your readers what the book is about.

Have you ever experienced your life as useless and painful? Do you get to a point that you just want to end it all? Do you believe that there are advantages and disadvantages in the lives of most human beings?

It is indeed a pleasure for me to share with all of my readers the aspirations, impartations, failures, and experiences I have endured. There were the positive spiritual events that really shaped my life. It is important that you read each chapter intensely so you can be helped and blessed, especially the trigger points that changed my life. I was a little girl born out of wedlock to a mother who was a deaf-mute and who fell in love deserting me as her child. My life was as if I was living motherless not from death, but because my mother chose not to be a parent. I was living from house to house on the streets with nowhere to go. In my life, I was misused, abused, raped and stripped of all my dignity.

My journey was painful, but God had a plan for me.

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