Healing Through Divine Light: A Journey in Photos

By Efy McDonnell

In this book, her wondrous photographs are full of light and the sense that the Divine is everywhere. Efy makes the case that the Divine reveals itself in the most unusual of circumstances. She was searching for physical healing, which she received. Yet she was also gifted with an emotional, psychological, and spiritual healing as well. Nature and the spirits in nature were partners in her healing.

One cannot help but want to be propelled on such a journey to a transformed life. The author tells us how it happened for her, where she started, and where she ended up. Each persons journey is, of course, unique. But Efy has given us all a gift by revealing how it happened for her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Dec 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504354370

Efy McDonnell

efy is a fine arts contemplative photographer who lives in Central Ohio. Her photographs are in collections in Ohio, Arizona, California, Maine, and other states. She began her love affair with the natural world with a 35 mm camera, capturing spirits of light, color, and movement in the beautiful natural areas in Central Ohio. She now uses a digital camera. She has learned to “hear” nature, what it asks, what it knows, how it challenges, and how it heals us.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-5437-0 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 12/10/2016

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Healing Through Divine Light

A Journey In Photos

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Tidings

efy McDonnell

For my son, who had to sacrifice so much so I could heal and become whole.

May you understand how much love it took for me to change our lives forever.

I love you!

Contents

Prelude

I. The Awakening: Healing Begins

II. The Transition: The Heart Shatters

III. The Healing: Gift of Clarity

With Gratitude

* Cover Photo: Be at Peace by efy

* Back Cover Photo :Peaceful Point by efy

Prelude

I was in a very thin time—at my weakest and most desperate—when the journey told through these photographs and journal writings began. But the story begins even earlier. As a child, I loved to color. My inner nudging guided me to paint on a kind of make-shift artist’s easel. No one ever really noticed or told me to keep it up, but I loved the experience of placing colors on paper.

And I loved spending hours outdoors, climbing those huge old trees in our yard as far up as I could go. I’d sit up there at the top and take in everything. I especially loved the birds. I’d lose track of time. I was never ready to go in, until forced by darkness.

In elementary school, I began taking photos of our family dogs with a small Kodak camera. My dog, Togo, was a beautiful white Husky. In the early 1980s, a friend introduced me to the amazing 35mm camera. I had to have my own. That is when my life as a nature photographer began.

I felt at home in nature—at the top of a tree, under bending branches, in the middle of the woods, or standing near a flowing stream.