Ebook Son of My Soul The Adoption of Christopher Debra Shiveley Welch Arlene O'Neil 9781894936934 Books

Product details Paperback 140 pages Publisher GOOD RED ROAD PUBLISHING LLC (October 17, 2007) Language English ISBN-10 1894936930

Son of My Soul The Adoption of Christopher Debra Shiveley Welch Arlene O'Neil 9781894936934 Books Reviews

• It's always enriching to peek into someone else's life. So, you know, most books are good. I want as many details as the author is willing to share. I'm willing to pay the price of sharing in depression, envy, greed, sorrow, confusion to gain insight and widom.
  
  The rare beauty of Son of My Soul is that it will make you feel bubbling joy in your heart, and you'll look at the future as filled with boundless opportunity and blindingly bright promise. Read it, and be a better person.
• This story was written from the heart and brought me on a very emotional roller coaster. This story will stay with me and it brings tears everytime I think of what this woman suffered as a child but yet rose out of a loveless childhood to being a woman of a big heart that knows no boundaries. Debra was going to make sure history would not repeat itself and no child would 't have ever know what it would be like not to be hugged, cuddled and just feel love.
  
  The story of her childhood and how she was treated and how she felt her whole life brought so many tears that it was hard to read the words on the page. I so wanted to hug that little girl who didn't know what a loving family was or what a true mother should have been to her. She faced so many obstacles but yet she grew up knowing that a child deserved love even if that child didn't look as other children did. My heart almost burst when she wanted Christopher even though he had a disability. But to her, he was beautiful and nothing was wrong with the way he looked. She loves unconditionally and considering she never knew that feeling of being loved, she grew up being able to give plenty of love to a child no one else wanted and she made sure Christopher never knew the feeling of never being loved.
  
  I want to hug Debra and tell her she is one fantastic person and mother. Christopher couldn't have gotten a better,more loving, more understanding mother than her. If I could give this book more than a 5 star rating I would because it truly does deserve much much more.
• It has taken me a little while to write this review and I find that happens whenever a book is so good, so sentiment packed that it moves me and becomes a part of me. That is what happened when I read Son of My Soul, the Adoption of Christopher.
  
  The writer, Debra Shively Welch, has penned a tale to tell her adopted son about the hardships she faced growing up and how he came to be adopted as well as stories of their early lives together. It is an emotional journey that made me smile and cry at the same time. The love that Welch wrote this with pours from the pages and the reader can't help but feel it. Nor can the reader help but admire Welch for her strength.
  
  I would highly recommend Son of My Soul, the Adoption of Christopher if you are a reader that values a well written story that will make you feel good by the end.
• It has taken me a little while to write this review and I find that happens whenever a book is so good, so sentiment packed that it moves me and becomes a part of me. That is what happened when I read Son of My Soul, the Adoption of Christopher.
  
  The writer, Debra Shiveley Welch, has penned a tale to tell her adopted son about the hardships she faced growing up and how he came to be adopted as well as stories of their early lives together. It is an emotional journey that made me smile and cry at the same time. The love that Welch wrote this with pours from the pages and the reader can't help but feel it. Nor can the reader help but admire Welch for her strength.
  
  I would highly recommend Son of My Soul, the Adoption of Christopher if you are a reader that values a well written story that will make you feel good by the end.
• TITLE Son Of My Soul
  AUTHOR Debra Shiveley Welch
  COPYRIGHT 2007 by Debra Shiveley Welch
  PUBLISHER Saga Books[...]
  GENRE Autobiography
  FORMAT Paperback
  ISBN 9781894936934
  PAGES 140
  PRICE $[...]
  FAMILY PHOTOS by Debra Shiveley Welch
  
  Can you imagine growing up with poverty, neglect, drunkenness and molestation? Author Debra Shiveley Welch can. In this poignant autobiography the author recounts how she overcomes these things and more. She relates her story in poems, essays and narration.
  
  The author is a born storyteller. She takes you by the hand and leads you through her sad childhood. You experience with her the days when both of her parents are gone for days at a time, leaving the small Debra to care for her younger half brother and half sister. She cares for the children with no electricity, water or heat in the house. Through these heartbreaking years it is only her faith that gets her through.
  
  You count the years, months and days until her graduation when she is seventeen-years-old. It is then that she can move out of the house. It is then that her life starts to improve and she lands her first job and friends. You rejoice with her when she finally meets `the one'. You cry tears of happiness with her when her adopted son, Christopher, arrives at the age of seven days old.
  
  In this inspirational autobiography, the reader worries with her, cries with her and prays with her through all of Christopher's many surgeries.
  
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  By
  Deborah Hockenberry
  Saturday, February 14, 2009