A Kiss Without Any Shame: In Every Person's Shattered Heart Is God's Mending Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781732530829)

I pray that my life story will give hope and move those who need to find the healing touches of God's mending love!

--Annabelle Sabella-Reza

Annabelle Sabella-Reza shares the heart-moving story of her life-altering revelation about finding absolute love. Set in 1960, shortly after the devastating loss of her beloved father; grief-stricken--in the most vulnerable time, eight-year-old Annabelle, became the victim of child sexual assaults--endured more traumatic abuse in her teens. Feeling abandoned and unprotected, she lost faith in love's existence. At age 16, unable to deal with heightened torment, she aimed the razor blade and slit her wrist.

She survived, but desperation drove Annabelle to run away from her dark past. She leaves her family and birthplace, the Philippines, bound for the USA. There in the new world, life transformed significantly: marriage with a new set of family and motherhood--where much of love infused. Still, the non-stop trouncing of shameful acts would resurface--intensifying each time--she plunges further into the heartless world. Until one day, over thirty years after, she encountered a divine intervention about unconditional love. With valor against cultural traditions, she continued to seek... and finds the supreme God Who loves, heals, and restores.

Annabelle's heart-rendering and compelling account of her encounter with God unveil the agonizing hurts and pain--that deeply hidden shame and guilt--washed away and replaced with dignity and worth. Our Father in Heaven, Who made us in His likeness accepts us as we are.

From victim to victory--A Kiss Without Any Shame is an encouraging life testimony of God's grace and mercy. Freeing Annabelle from the bondage of defeat to the liberated life of His loving assurance.

Annabelle's story is of redemption. She shares the eight pillars on living free from the snares of the world's limiting choices. And why she said, "Yes" to these eight powerful life-changing steps.