Beautifully Broken: Recovering with Faith

By Donna Silvester-Breur

THIS IS MY SECOND VOLUME FROM “BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN” MAMA
D’S RECOVERY POETRY. THE FIRST VOLUME IS ABOUT MY LIFE, GETTING SOBER,
FIGHTING MANIC BIPOLAR AND MORE OF THE STRUGGLES IN MY LIFE AT THE TIME.


THIS VOLUME IS MORE ABOUT RECOVERING, FINDING FAITH, FAMILY, GRATITUDE
AND SURVING WITH MY ROLLERCOASTER EMOTIONS.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS BOOK AS IT IS MORE UPBEAT AND PROVING WE CAN
LIVE LIFE WITH OUR DISEASE. SURVIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME WITH HOPE, UNITY AND FINDING
LOVE IN A NEW LIGHT. STAYING IN OUR OWN LANE AND LETTING YOURSELF AND OTHERS
THRIVE.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664154902

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Copyright © 2021 by Donna Silvester-Breur.

ISBN:      Hardcover         978-1-6641-5492-6

                Softcover           978-1-6641-5491-9

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Contents

A New Life

A Year Forward to Celebrate

Aches and Pains

Addictions of Shopping

Alone in My Thoughts

Appreciation in Nature

Around Me

Back in God’s Divine

BEAUTY THE NON POEM

Be the Man

Behind the Mask

Bello

BOREDOM

CAN THEY SEE

Chaz’s Comforts

Christmas Being Sober

Coming Back to Light

Coming Out Anxious

Counseling Center

Count Your Blessings

DISMAY

Diseases of Addition

Dreary

Fighting the Dread

FREE

FREE WITH GRADITUDE

Getting Through a Day

GOD/ SATAN/ FAITH MY MEANINGS OF THEM

GOD’S NATURE

God Does not Judge

GOD AND SUPERBOWL

God’s Snow

Goodness in Sobriety

HEALING DISPLACEMENT WITH GOD

Healing Forgiveness

Holy Spirit Restored Me 10/04/2020

HOW I BECAME THE REAL ME

HOW IS ADDICTION BORN

I Really am Blessed

I Will not Break

I Wondered

JEALOUSLY

Just Me

LOOKS LIKE IT’S FINISHED

LOVE

Love of My Life

MANAGED ADDICTION

MANIC

Mary

ME

Mickey My Shining Armour

My First Poem

My God

MY HAPPINESS

MY LEARNIING OF COURAGE

My Supporters

NO LONGER WONDER

No Matter What Graditude

No One Believes

Our House

Pride and Family

Rainbows

Reinstated

Rise Above

SADNESS AHOLD

Selfish People

Senses

Sleepless Nights

Sobriety Trust

Something to Adore

Stand Tall In Praise

Statements in Rhyme

Staying

TAKING THAT CHANCE IN MEETING

Thank God for my Work Family

Thanksgiving 2020

The Autumn Day

The Curve of my Man

THE MOON

The Special Love of my Babies

The Way I Feel with Him

To Be True

TRIPLE BLESSED

Trusted Circles

Twenty Twenty

Two Hundred Eighty

Uneasy

Unwanted Boredom

V-DAY

W.F.S

Was Floating Through Life

WHAT COMES WITH

What is the Deal

What to Do

When it All Happened

Who am I Behind this Mask

WHO FOR ME?

WHY ON SUNDAY

Wonderous

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A New Life

YOU HAVE TO BE PLANTED TO DIE

TO BE RESURRECTED IN THIS LIFE

LIKE A SEED TO BLOOM

LIKE A BUTTERFLY BEING BORN OUT OF A COCOON

JESUS SACRIFICED HIS LIFE

FOR OUR PLENTIFUL DELIGHTS

LIKE COMING OUT OF THE WATER

IN THE BAPTISM OF GOD’S GLORY

SINGING IN HIS GRACE

OPENS YOUR HEART WITH AMAZEMENT

THE FEEL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

IS LIKE THE FEELING OF REALLY LOVING YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR

YOU SEE THINGS IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT

EVEN IN DEFEAT YOU GET DELIGHT

THE PRAISE OF HIS NAME

YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

10/11/2020

A Year Forward

to Celebrate

TODAY I CELEBRATE MY YEAR

IT HAS NOT BEEN FULL OF FAITH AND CHEER

IT STARTED WITH DOUBT

AT SEABROOK REHAB

TWENTY-SIX DAYS

OF DOUBT AND FIGHTING ALL THE WAY

I REALIZED I WAS SICK

NOT ONLY WITH ALCOHOL BUT EMOTIONS HAD NO BLISS

I KNEW I NEEDED MORE HELP

SO AFFINITY ONE WAS THE CARDS I HAD BEEN DEALT

I HATED IT A FIRST

I WANTED TO LEAVE STOMPING

WITH LONELINESS, ANGER I FELT I WOULD BURST

AS TIME WENT BY

THE COUNSELORS, FELLOWSHIP AS A GUIDE

TOOK MY MEDICINE

IT IS OKAY TO LOOK BACK FROM WHERE I HAVE BEEN

I FOUND THE COURAGE AND DUG RIGHT IN

AND REALIZED IT WAS NOT ALL MY SIN

AFTER FORTY DAYS

I HAD TO LEAVE, HAD RESISTANCE AND DISMAY

TO AN OXFORD TO LIVE

AND IOP I CHOSE TO DIG IN

TIME WENT BY

FAITH AND HAPPINESS STARTED TO ENTER MY LIFE

MY THERAPY, GROUPS AND POETRY

WAS THE LIFE I NEED TO LEAD

DAYS ONE BY ONE WENT BY

TRUST ENTERED MY LIFE

MY POETRY MADE A