The shorter Oxford English dictionary defines a piece as “a small part of a material thing, any of the distinct portions or objects of which a material thing is composed”.

There are pieces of everything and every one of us has our own. They build up the components of who we are. Sometimes our pieces are scattered and do not make an all-round picturesque resemblance of who we are.

Unfortunately, we sometimes do not get the opportunity to know that a few of our pieces are missing. This takes us to places in search of our lost pieces. To some, the lost pieces can be found in trying out a new skill, moving to a new neighbourhood or finding new friends while to others the journey is on the inside. The search goes on within oneself marking the beginning and, often, the acquisition of new habits such as alcoholism or drugs. Whatever the case, the search for the pieces goes on.

We all long for a complete self. Pieces of Me is a story of Catherine’s small missing parts. She needed to find them and assemble herself to be the complete image that her creator made of her yet she was struggling. Knowing that some of her pieces were missing, she went on a search that resulted in the loss of her former self.  Oftentimes, she felt undeserving of her husband’s love and the beautiful life that God bestowed upon her. Identifying the struggles was not reason enough for her to stop being an alcoholic, instead, it pushed her to self-confinement to think that the delayed gift of children in her marriage with Paul was a punishment from God for her wrongdoing.

This book brings to light several individual struggles through which many become victims of the blame game that they have directly created or worse, merely perceived. Those little things silently eat off pieces of the full fabric that we are all created to be.

The beauty of this book comes with the knowledge that God’s amazing grace surpasses the wrongs of our deeds and thoughts. The eight years of a childless marriage soon became a thing of the past when she gave birth to her first set of twins and in no record time followed by another set.

These bundles of joy knit together the small parts of her life that had gone missing for years the kind that ate away her joy, gratitude and self-confidence. Here in this book is a wrong story gone right as told by Catherine.

AUTHOR:       Catherine Bagyenda

TITLE:             Pieces of me

GENRE:           Inspirational

ISBN:               978-9970-654-04-8

PAGES:             114

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