BENDING ANGELS
Living Messengers of God's Love
by
By Jack H. Emmott
Genre: Memoir / Inspirational / Faith
Publisher: Carpenter's Son Publishing
Date of Publication: January 1, 2017
Number of Pages: 176
Each chapter of this book will relate 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. This book will inspire and uplift you as Jack H. Emmott, a life-long Christian, shares his spiritual wisdom and lessons learned.
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PRAISE FOR BENDING ANGELS:
"The power of 'Let go and let God' is personified in this inspiring story. Also, that we are given guidance in the most unsuspected forms when we but look, and that a flood of grace is behind every surrender. What a joy."
-- Lindsay Wagner, actress, author
“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;
Chair, Advisory Council UTHealth School
of NursingTrustee, St. Edward’s University
“Bending Angel is a beautiful inspiring book about faith and prayer and the angels that surround us. Jack shared his life journey of trusting in God and drawing strength that was needed to help him. I learned a great deal from this book and have thought about it over and over again since I read it.”
-- Amazon Reviewer
“If only I could get through a chapter without crying...very moving and touching stories.”
-- Amazon Reviewer
“Emmottville”
As magical and wondrous as Winnie the Pooh, I grew up in a hundred-acre wood. The roots of my faith and importance of family grew deep in the rich gumbo soil, as did the live oak trees from east coastal Texas my grandfather, Paw Paw, planted there in 1930. The white sprawling Cape Cod style home he built for his bride, Jeannie, formed the heart --the center of the shelter and love --planned for me. That home became the place for birthday celebrations, weddings, annual Christmas parties and Easter egg hunt, forever a place for me to return for consistency and support.
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| Original Emmott House in the Snow, 1939 |
Paw Paw gave each of his nine children a wedding gift of five acres on which to build their homes. As a result, I grew up among forty-five cousins (40 of whom lived on the land), cows, including a longhorn steer, pigs, horses, goats, guineas, chickens, Old Tom Turkey, Old Donk, countless dogs and my own special dog, Brownie.
Soon after Grandmother’s dream house was built in 1937, oil was discovered in Emmottville. Oil made possible a one-acre pond to be filled with crystal clear blue water from White Oak Bayou, bountiful perch, catfish, and bass. Oil allowed Paw Paw to retire at age 50 and tend to me, to kids and grandkids, like he cared for his garden of vegetables, corn, watermelon, strawberry plants, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and okra. Oil provided the excitement of watching five producing wells being drilled, creating slush pits ripe with frogs to catch and eat. And, oil brought to Emmottville Mr. Rodgers. He was Amerada Hess’s oil superintendent, a de facto uncle to me and all my cousins.
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| Painting of JHE's Original House in Emmottville |
Today, Emmottville is engulfed by Greater Houston. But the spirit of my grandparents lives on in the relatives who continue their traditions. My father, Jack Emmott Jr., wrote, "We don't care about the present trend of families to scatter. Our philosophy is to stay together… Basically, the land holds us together. Yes, it's the land. It gives a person identity, strength, and security and helps solve problems."
Amen, Daddy.
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| Original Emmott House Today |
PURCHASE LINKS
Author Jack H. Emmott contracted polio at the age of six. Before polio, he knelt at his bedside with his mother Lucile and said evening prayers. With paralysis, Jack could no longer kneel. But he could still pray to God for guidance, comfort and healing. The grace and love of God transformed all the bad from polio and paralysis into good. Jack is a life-long Christian and successful family lawyer in Houston, Texas. He is married to his wife of over forty years, Dorothy, who works alongside him in his calling. Jack is father to two children and grandfather to three grandchildren.
Jack is the author of Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love by (Carpenter's Son Publishing, 2016) a memoir of the living angels that touched his life. He wrote Prayerful Passages: Asking God’s Help in Reconciliation, Separation and Divorce (Outskirts Press, 2016) to help couples in struggling marriages ask God’s help through prayer for the same guidance, comfort and healing he has received from our Almighty Father for over sixty years following polio.
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