Reflections From A Broken Mirror

Her Silence is BROKEN. Her voice is now heard. Echoing loud, vibrant and FREE. A decade's long journey will now be told. from successfully single to married with five children in one year. Chronicling homelessness, marital affairs, grief, loss, divorce, and joy. All while learning to listen to that still small voice. Crying God where are you. Learning to find him in the murkiest of waters. These are her personal reflections.

Fiction often serves as an escape from reality but poetry acts as a tool to express it. The collection of 40 poems is a journey of healing and growth experienced from the perspective of a mother recovering from post-partum depression. The poems reflect the poet's conflict with her social role, her religious beliefs and her spiritual hunger. The poems speak of alienation, the duplicities of social media and the pressures of a superficial society. The poems bear an autobiographical element but is reflective of women at large and motherhood in focus.

"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." Benjamin Disraeli........."Reflections From A Broken Mirror" further pursues in short stories a long and varied life of the author as did his "Tales From The Underbrush" book seri

Poetry that has been written from the experiences, ideas, and beliefs of Kalai.

Broken Mirror Reflections is an uplifting composition based on life and its diverse tribulations. The quotes, poems and stories within, aim to inspire and provoke reflection, enabling the reader to view the fragments that make up life in a new and refreshing light. Broken Mirror Reflections delves into with the complexities of depression, anxiety, hate, fear, love, hope, happiness and self-growth."If you learn to understand the world, you will learn to fear it less. And, in the light of that diminishing fear, you will learn to love it more.""When we cease being slaves to our wicked desires, and become their masters instead, we become committed to fulfilling our destinies."

"John and Christ administered baptism totins corpore submersione, by the submission of the whole body The very word 'baptize' signifies to immerse entirely, and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church." John Calvin "The Greek word baptizo means 'immerse' or 'plunge', and the word baptisma means 'immersion'." Martin Luther "Immersion of the whole body was used from the beginning, which expresses the force of the word 'baptize', whence John baptized in a river. It was afterward changed into sprinkling, though it is uncertain when or by whom." Ulrich Zwingli "Baptism is immersion in water." Philip Melancthon "It is true that there is no express command to baptize infants in the New Testament, no express record of the baptism of infants, and no passages so stringently implying it that we must infer from them that infants were baptized." B. B. Warfield "There is no Biblical basis for infant baptism-this tradition is simply an old error of the church." Karl Barth