No Missing Pieces
A Life Journey in Fragments
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This is the life story of a very ordinary woman – it is the story of Audrey Brown Lightbody – a story told in fragments that make up the various parts of her life. It is unconventional in that it follows the journey chronologically, yet the contents in each section are disconnected fragments within the story - bits and pieces that fit into each fragment.
A significant resource played a part in my thinking as I worked on this memoir. Jigsaw puzzles came to mind. Doing these puzzles was always something I enjoyed. There are all of those scattered pieces that make up the picture in its wholeness. There are the four-sided edge pieces that give the puzzle a shape and make up the square. Within that determined edge there are many attributes that will make up the picture, but one must look for the fragments of color, of design, and even the way in which the pieces are notched. When, through trial and error, the fragmented pieces are put in the right order, one has a completed picture.
Jigsaw puzzles always have a picture on the box that allows you to do some matching up of the finished product. It is to be hoped that this puzzle is complete, without a missing piece or two. This memoir has no picture on a cover to help you – it is just fragments that through the years leads to this story of an ordinary woman, with the color and notches and design that create a unique person. The fragmented journey is written in prose and poetry and appears to leave “no missing pieces.”
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As we get older, many of us look back and wonder about the value of our lives and the ripples that resulted from decisions we made. We consider what sets us apart from others—and what we have in common with them.
This personal narrative shares the life story of an ordinary woman: author Audrey Brown Lightbody. She lays out the fragments that make up the various parts of her life. Though she traces her journey chronologically, the contents in each section are disconnected fragments within the story—bits and pieces that fit into the categories of family, home, work, and faith matters. Lightbody demonstrates how life events and choices made have created a woman who has lived not an unusual life, but an interesting one. She is a woman who has trusted God to lead her, through the various fragments of her life, into service in God’s kingdom.
Including both poetry and prose, this memoir explores the choices that one woman made trying to live her life within God’s plan and their effects on her life with her family and in the world.
About the Author
Audrey Brown Lightbody has spent her life in administrative and ecumenical ministries within the Christian church. She is a writer who has shared her insights through a variety of writing media: poetry, drama, curricula, books, and many articles. She is currently retired and living in Claremont, California.