Beautifully Prepared: Restoring Magnificence to Your Purpose. This item is unavailable.Beautifully Prepared: Restoring Magnificence to Your Purpose

The author in this book reflects on the luster of her life filled with wonderful success yet tarnished with feelings of emptiness and sorrow. Many women know this life. We appear good, whole, and complete on the outside while sadness fills the depths of the heart on the inside. We often wonder if we will ever experience complete happiness, joy, or peace in our lifetime. Our soul cries out in anguish. When we are younger, we take on a barrage of messages, many of which are lies when applied toward the truth of our identity. Monica Schaefer reflects on how a lie twisted her purpose and identity for over 35 years until a crisis required her to face the lie, her shame, and self-hatred. The journey brought her to the life of Eve and a woman known in the Bible as “the Bride” in the book of Revelation. The mix of written reflections, contemporary portraits and scriptures relays a deeply personal and universal message of an essential truth, relevant to all women. Beautifully Prepared sheds light on the lies, offering hope to readers for happiness, joy, and peace that seemed to have escaped them.

Monica Schaefer became the youngest circuit court judge in Tampa, Florida by age 36. She later began a missionary career in Israel, where she met her now husband, Doug. Today, she enjoys the treasures and adventures of raising their daughter in New York City.

Julie Headland is a New England based fine artist. Her portraits push the limits of form and abstraction while maintaining a wonderful likeness of the sitter. When painting she works in a studio on the grounds of her antique farmhouse in Weston, Connecticut where she lives with her husband and four children.