Dazzled: Finding the Key to Perfect Forgiveness

by Jess Echeverry, Teresa Tomeo (Foreword), Patti Maguire Armstrong (Contributor)

Everyone needs to heal from something. We all have brokenness. Some of us don’t even recognize our wounds for what they are; the things we flaunt only hide what we fail to acknowledge. When the wounds finally do get uncovered, the pain intensifies and we want to get beyond the discomfort as soon as possible. We desire to live a normal, happy life and not to be held captive by our past. We’re told forgiveness is the key. Perhaps we know that already. We may even believe it. But do we know what perfect forgiveness actually is? The world offers a version of forgiveness whose goal is to unload our burdens so we can feel better and ‘move on’. Once we attain this level, we’re allowed to be happy. But this book suggests something radically the world’s version of forgiveness is sadly incomplete. It’s unfinished. Only through the transformative power of our wounds themselves, can the fullness of perfect forgiveness be attained.

132 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 16, 2020

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This author is brave to share her story, but she seems to have gone from extreme promiscuity as a method of coping to an extremely rigid, repressive, and authoritative view of sexuality and sex in general, possibly again a coping technique. She is extremely religious and judgmental, she speaks out against LGBT people and trans people. She feels all relationships that aren't marriage are sinful. And she doesn't keep those views to herself or only apply them to herself – she pushes them on others.

I didn't think her arguments against LGBT people had a place in the book, and was angered by her claim that single mothers are sinful if they try to be both "mother and father" to their children. How dare she call single mothers sinners? What are they supposed to do, abort? She clearly feels that that's wrong, but apparently, being a single mother is wrong too. People usually aren't single mothers by choice – they're doing the best they can.

Who is she to tell single mothers how they should think of themselves? Her claim that children need both the mother and the father, that same-sex relationships are bad for children, and that single mothers have done something wrong aren't based in any kind of logic, research, or reasoning, just the author's religious views.

That's why I'm giving this book only two stars.

I do have a lot of sympathy for everything this author went through – she had a very hard life, and I'm glad she's doing better and has overcome her past. I'm happy for her that she is happy after everything she's been through. But her judgmental attitude isn't justified.

[Jess Echeverry · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote it, so I obviously love it! :-)
To God be the glory!