Nurturing Healing Love by Scarlett Lewis re Loss of Her Son at Sandy Hook Elementary

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A Mother's Journey of Hope, Healing, Destiny, and Miracles... Nurturing, Healing, Love by Scarlett Lewis

"Although my story has many moments of sorrow, it's not a sad story—it's a love story. It's about my love for my sons, my family, my community, and God. This is a mother's journey of hope, healing, destiny, and even miracles." —Scarlett Lewis  The morning of December 14, 2012 began like any other for Scarlett Lewis as her six-year-old son, Jesse, set out for school, stopping in the driveway to write a message with his finger in the frost of her car door: "I love you." Unbeknownst to her, just hours later, he would be gone—a victim of the gunman who opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And Scarlett's life would be forever changed. Yet, Nurturing, Healing, Love is not a story about a massacre. It is a story about how to face and survive the impossible. It is a story about how to find courage when you think you have none. And it is a story about how to choose love instead of anger, fear, or hatred. After that unimaginable day, Scarlett's life began anew—along with her determination to fulfill the sentiment of three words Jesse wrote on a chalkboard at home shortly before he died: Norurting Helin Love (Nurturing Healing Love). Empowered by her son's simple message, Scarlett shares the intimate steps of her personal journey back to living along with her poignant discovery of how love would carry her and her family through the heartbreak if they let it. In her son's honor, Scarlett began the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation, an establishment committed to teaching children how to live a life centered around compassion and love. Honoring the belief that when we make choices from a place of love, Scarlett shows us within the pages of Nurturing, Healing, Love how the world truly can become a safer, happier, and healthier place. And so, through the story of a tragedy that began with an angry thought, Nurturing, Healing, Love reflects Jesse's vitally important message to "choose love." Led by hope, love, forgiveness, and faith, Scarlett poignantly inspires and gracefully teaches us how to become instruments of compassion and peace, revealing Jesse's ultimate truth that love never ends. 100% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation. To learn more about the foundation or to make a donation, go towww.jesselewischooselove.org.

I didn't read this book. I felt it. I felt every word, every sentence, every paragraph, every page, every chapter, right up through the end—when Scarlett thanks her precious little boy for teaching her the greatest lesson of this life: love never ends. This penetrating and thoughtful book brought home to me, in a very big way, something the poet, spiritual teacher, and my friend Maya Angelou said when we were on a radio show in San Francisco many years ago. "I've learned," Maya said, "that people will forget what you said, will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." I have never forgotten these words, though sometimes their truth hits me more forcefully. Immersing myself in this book made me feel in a way that I will always remember. It made me feel a wide range of emotions from anger to frustration to sadness to despair to joy to appreciation for the endless miracles that surround us—and it made me feel hope, hope for a far better world. And finally, it made me feel love because the book you are about tofeel is not a story of rage and revenge as one could well understand in the face of such a horrific experience as the one that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School where Scarlett's little boy Jesse was senselessly murdered. No, this is truly a love story, a story that clearly sends the message that love itself never ends and that it is our destiny as a people to learn and apply this lesson even in the face of circumstances that are beyond comprehension. When tragedy strikes, our first human response is to react in anger and with rage in our hearts, to attempt to end such dark behavior by throwing more darkness at the problem. Yet our rational minds tell us that reacting with darkness in the form of hatred and madness simply expands and multiplies the darkness. The only answer to so much darkness is to bring light. As Saint Francis of Assisi reminded us in his widely recited prayer, "Where there is darkness, let me bring light." Scarlett Lewis has faced the ultimate darkness. She has shared, from a deep place of truth within, the agony of losing her Jesse at such a tender age. She has shared her very personal journey back to living and teaching how to become instruments of love... It is an honor and a privilege to have shared the stage with Scarlett in New York, as she brought the audience to its feet in a thunderous cacophony of applause. Her message is a reflection of Jesse's life. It is what I humbly attempt to live and teach. Where there is hatred, change the thought. Where there is no love, we must put love, and then surely we will find love. I AM, Wayne Dyer

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