Collateral Beauty

“Collateral Beauty” is amazing, heart-breaking, poignant and uplifting, all at the same time. Lauretta Ofulue’s acoustic honesty about living through the loss of her child takes your breath away, yet underneath the sadness of her loss is the powerful choice she makes to comfort her grief, understand it and with the grace of God, turn it into something positive. The writing is powerful and whilst moving the reader emotionally, this book also gives them a truly uplifting message – “what misfortune can bring with it is a new lens from which to view life – a lens that can easily be misplaced or sometimes lost if the only focus is the misfortune. That lens is empowering.” This is a beautiful and thoroughly recommended book – Fr. Emmanuel Okami.