Sea glass pebbles are unique gems that can be found in various art projects, jewelry pieces, and, if we’re lucky, on the beach during a treasure hunt. The frosted beauties were once broken fragments of bottles and such. I’m in awe over how something broken can be transformed into something so beautiful. The process in which sea glass is created is just as intriguing. It rolls around and tumbles in the ocean for years, enduring the pounding of harsh waves and the abrasive attack of sand. The entire time the elements are reshaping it into something new and more appealing.

I can’t help but see the similarities between sea glass and our lives after we overcome difficult circumstances. I explored this in Sea Glass Castle. Our hero, Wes, and heroine, Sophia, meet each other at a point of brokenness. It was so satisfying to create a world where they overcame their brokenness, finally embracing the changes and a second chance at love.

“We started out last summer in shards of our former selves, both going through a turbulent journey, but our time together has smoothed out the jaggedness and formed us into something quite appealing.” —Wes, Sea Glass Castle

While researching the life of sea glass, I was surprised to discover that some pieces can be more than a century old, while most journey for a few decades before washing up on shore. So a big factor in the transformation is time. Hard as that is for someone like me, who is not a patient person, there’s no getting around the fact that some things take time. In the midst of a life storm it’s difficult to see anything past it, but on the other side of it, wow. It can really catch you off guard how something that was in process for months, years, even decades can suddenly reveal itself.

The process of forming sea glass leaves me optimistic, considering that something that was once viewed as garbage can be transformed into beautiful treasure. Don’t give up, my friends. A new life can be found after a turbulent journey. Just have faith and patience.

“We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9).

Thank you, Tonya, for such an encouraging guest post!

My daughter Lydia and I tried our hands at turning glass and shells into art. We enjoyed our afternoon of piecing together all the brokenness into something I find quite beautiful!

From the bestselling author of Lulu’s Café

Sophia Prescott is still mending from the embarrassment of a highly publicized divorce from a pro football player, and the now-single mother is back in Sunset Cove, surrounded by the supporting love of her family and the Sand Queens. Sophia doesn’t think there’s any hope for starting over until an unexpected trip to the pediatrician’s office gives her a second chance after all.

Dr. Weston Sawyer knows all about lives shattering into millions of pieces. His own all but ended when a truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and barreled head-on into his pregnant wife’s sedan, killing her instantly and leaving Wes with a soul so wounded that it has refused to heal. He packed up and left swampy southern Alabama for South Carolina with the hope of fading into the sleepy coastal town of Sunset Cove. Instead, feisty brunette Sophia Prescott will have him braving something different and entirely unexpected. If Sophia and Wes can take the leap to give love another try, they just might find that hope has a way of coming back around and weaving into one’s heart.

Come back soon for Necee’s review of the conclusion to Tonya’s Carolina Coast series.

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Tonya “T. I.” Lowe is a native of coastal South Carolina. She attended Coastal Carolina University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she majored in psychology but excelled in creative writing. In 2014, Tonya independently published her first novel, Lulu’s Café, which quickly became a bestseller. Now the author of twelve published novels with hundreds of thousands of copies sold, she knows she’s just getting started and has many more stories to tell. She resides near Myrtle Beach with her family.

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