Beauty for Ashes: Receiving the Breathtaking Grace of Christ (How to Optimize Christlike Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence) - Softcover

Call, Kelly L

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798266714236

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Beauty for Ashes: Receiving the Breathtaking Grace of Christ

What if the parts of you that feel ruined are actually the doorway to your restoration?

In a world that profits from confusion, distraction, and despair, Beauty for Ashes offers a clear, covenant-anchored path back to wholeness. Drawing on Latter-day Saint scripture and prophetic teaching—and written in a voice teens and adults can both trust—this book maps the soul with unusual precision. You’ll learn how seven “governing dynamics” of a healthy soul are subtly inverted into self-abusive plagues—and how the grace of Jesus Christ restores each one, line upon line.

Instead of clichés, you’ll find language that keeps it real. Instead of quick fixes, you’ll find an architecture of agency you can actually live in.

Inside you’ll discover:

• The Seven Governing Dynamics—a high-definition framework for how the mind, heart, and spirit are meant to work together under God.
• The Plagues of our Day—from The Murder of Divine Uniqueness (identity erasure) to Counterfeit Light (noisy “revelation” and analysis paralysis) to Stubborn Stiff-Necked Minds (The Damnation of Closed Unyielding Minds
• . Each plague is exposed—and answered—with Christlike antidotes: faith, fellowship, covenants, purity of love, agency, reverence, discernment, and childlike teachability.
• The War for Your Voice—why the adversary doesn’t just tempt, he falsifies; how rage replaces reverence, and how Christ restores your soul song.
• Discernment in a Scrollstorm—how to hear the Holy Ghost in an age of ai deepfakes, click bait, doomscrolling, and algorithmic urgency; practical patterns that move you from sensationalism → stillness → fruit → covenant → revelation.
• The Legislative Mind, Redeemed—how stubbornness, obstruction, and spiritual filibusters collapse learning—and how joyful revision under the Spirit makes your conscience whole again.
• The Prayer that Availeth Much—a robust, scripture-rooted section on fervent petition, guileless honesty, and “the song of the heart” (D&C 25:12) as real prayer that moves heaven.
• Narratives & Benedictions—sacred short fiction and spoken blessings that don’t tidy things up but leave you in redemptive tension—right where grace does its deepest work.

You will not be shamed here. You will be invited—gently and boldly—into practices that rebuild attention, restore reverence, and re-awaken covenant confidence. You’ll learn to test spirits by their fruits, to welcome correction without collapse, and to stand up in your divine uniqueness without domination or disappearance.

Who this book is for

• Believers who feel spiritually overstimulated yet undernourished.
• Parents, teachers, and leaders seeking language that reaches the spirit, head and the heart and feel gut level relevant.
• Disciples who love the restored gospel and want tools that match the complexity of real life.
• Anyone who has ever thought, “I’m not broken, but something is—and I need a map back to Joyfulness.”

With lyrical prose, doctrinal clarity, and pastoral warmth, Beauty for Ashes is more than a book—it’s a companion for the willing and those who want to be obedient. It will help you trade counterfeit urgency for holy stillness, rage for reverence, certainty for teachability, and self-erasure for a Christ-anchored identity that sings again.

If you are ready to stop white-knuckling your faith and start walking with God in a way that actually heals, start here. The Lord is not broadcasting louder; He is inviting you to tune your life to Him. Draw near, and He will draw near. Trade your pain for higher purpose and Receive His breathtaking grace.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798266714236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 639