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Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love

The Bending Angel book cover

Inspiration for Cover

The title and beautiful cover of the book come from the painting, Bending Angel, by Texas State Artist of the Year Charles Schorre. This painting, which inspired Jack’s powerful memoir, hangs on the wall in his bedroom and in his heart. Jack writes,

“With the creative gifts God bestowed upon Charles, he brushed her into existence with the mediums of water color and acrylic. To find her way into my bedroom, she made her own miraculous biblical journey through a flood in Charles’ home. Then she was placed in a simple frame. Her image seems to leap off the paper into my daily life.”

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One: An Angel Leads Me to the Dollhouse

Chapter Two: The Gift of Bread

Chapter Three: If All Dogs Go To Heaven, Brownie Must Have Been an Angel

Chapter Four: Dorothy Carlton

Chapter Five: Do Some of God’s Angels Have Hoofs?

Chapter Six: An Angel for Wonder Boy Emmott

Chapter Seven: When You Need One the Most, God Always Sends You an Angel

Chapter Eight: My Bending Angel of First Romantic Love

Chapter Nine: The Angel Who Opens Doors

Chapter Ten: Dorothy, the Angel of True Love

Chapter Eleven: The Iron Lung Angel

Chapter Twelve: Brother Angel Charles, the Disciple of Mother’s Plans

Chapter Thirteen: My Mother, An Angel in Disguise

Chapter Fourteen: Thanks Be to God

Product Details

Published: October 31, 2016
Paperback
Publisher: Carpenter’s Son Publishing (January 1, 2017)
Number of pages: 176
Language: English
ISBN-10:  978-1-942587-75-0
ISBN-13:978-1-942587-75-0
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x .5 x 8.5
Shipping Weight: .365 pounds
Price: $14.99

 

Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love (Carpenter’s Son Publishing, 2016) tells the story of Jack H. Emmott’s journey from a child stricken with polio, to an over-achieving adult. As a six-year old boy in August of 1954, Jack’s life was full of hope and promise. For Jack and for his family the disaster which was about to happen was not the flooding of his home and his neighborhood, Emmottville. Rather, it was Jack ingesting the silent, unseen fecal polio virus as he walked to get the mail with PawPaw, his grandfather, on a shell road flooded by White Oak Bayou waters.

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Polio changed Jack’s life and that of his family forever. Today, Jack is married to the love of his life, Dorothy, is a father of a daughter and son, a grandfather of four, a successful collaborative family law attorney, mediator, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, song writer and author who navigates his busy life from a motorized wheelchair.

Each chapter relates the story of a Bending Angel—from Brownie, the pup, to Mr. Ochoa, the baseball coach, who understood how much of a heart it takes to win, and how much of a soul it takes to lose your most precious dream.

Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love will inspire and uplift you in times of loss, darkness or ill health. Jack, a life-long Christian, shares his spiritual wisdom and light-filled life lessons learned from thirteen angels who touched his vulnerable young heart after the onset of polio.

Jack believes that every Christian soul needs to be part of slow living and mindful loving for Christ. To take time each day to pray, to count and be thankful for God’s blessings, to be ever watchful for the Holy messengers the Lord purposely places in your path and to consider that you may be an instrument, an angel, to another person for a divine purpose. Jack says, “We have a duty to our Creator to act on the opportunities granted to us to be and become messengers of God’s love to others. As I have received, so I always strive to be an angel to others.”

The power of ‘Let go and let God’ is personified in this inspiring story. That we are given guidance in the most unsuspected forms when we but look, and a flood of grace behind every surrender. What a joy.

Lindsay Wagner

Actress and Author

I first met Jack in Houston when he was a bright and active toddler.  When news that this laughing child was stricken by paralyzing polio, I cried over the loss of his potential.  And yet, Jack emerged from his cataclysmic childhood to lead a distinguished, brilliant, and joyful life.

Jack’s story brings hope to those who find themselves in frightening and seemingly hopeless places. It will bring inspiration to anyone who is given the opportunity to become an angel for someone whose life is more fragile than their own.

Deanne Tilton Durfee

Jack Emmott's Cousin

With gentle humor and no small amount of faith, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love tells the story of Jack Emmott’s life and of the angels who have appeared in his life, just when he needed them the most.

Do I believe in angels? Absolutely.

Was Jack himself an angel to me during the darkest period of my life? Absolutely.

Debbie Adams

Past President, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston

About Jack H. Emmott

Jack H. Emmott

I am a polio survivor. The fact that I suffered paralysis at the age of six is, in some ways, unimportant. Bad things happen to everyone. Viewed differently...

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