When God's Grace Found Me: Finding my true identity through a lifetime of secrets, shame, and God's redeeming love - Paperback

Taylor, Kelly: - KELLY TAYLOR has spent most of her life making people laugh, and the better part of it learning how to tell the truth.The oldest of five, she grew up in Minneapolis and came of age on the water at Spring Lake, where a postcard childhood covered over a good deal that went unspoken. She married young, raised three daughters through the hardest years of her life, and carried secrets for decades, some of them her own and some handed to her by other people. At fifty-four she learned the truth about her own paternity, and everything she thought she knew about her family, and about herself, had to be rebuilt from the ground up.Somewhere in the middle of all that, she became a professional clown.For more than twenty years Kelly performed at birthday parties, company picnics, singing telegrams, and corporate events. She played a Christmas elf at Macy's alongside Mr. and Mrs. Santa, and she once won a paid radio spot with a jingle she wrote about sirloin steak. Her best-known creation, Gert the Flirt (old as dirt, lookin' for a hot man named Bert), turned up at Saint Paul Saints baseball games in a wig, a cane, and a pillow stuffed into a pair of spandex shorts, twirling and twerking her way through the innings to the delight of an entire ballpark.Kelly is the mother of three daughters and a grandmother who counts her grandchildren as the purest joy she has. She credits her faith with carrying her through addiction, grief, divorce, and the long, unglamorous work of forgiving the people who hurt her, herself very much included.When God's Grace Found Me is her first book. She wrote it for anyone who has ever sat at a table full of family and still felt completely alone.Strauss, David Lloyd: - EDITOR and AUTHOR COACH; David Lloyd Strauss is an internationally celebrated Bestselling Writer, Editor, and Author Coach offering personalized coaching and writing services for aspiring writers who want to be the authentic authors of their book without using a ghostwriter-while benefiting from David's over forty years of literary experience.Having published over ten books of his own and helped dozens of others worldwide write and publish their books, David draws his inspiration and enthusiasm for writing from his second chance at life after recovering from a rockfall to his head while visiting ancient ruins in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. His work and story have been featured across major media outlets, including ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX TV networks, NPR, and Success Today TV, as well as at a private reception at the United Nations in New York City, and on dozens of podcasts, live stages, and webinars worldwide.Best known for his concept of Energy Vampire Blasters, which helps people recognize and overcome negative influences in their lives, the energy vampires that rob them of self-confidence, and replace them with high-value relationships.David's work can be found on Amazon by searching: "David Lloyd Strauss"