Shelly Edwards Jorgensen - Out of the Ashes

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">                                                '<em>My Mom was at home when I left</em>.'</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">I have two asks. The first is that you stay with this interview as it unfolds. There are so many layers, and out of the ashes rises a remarkable human spirit.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">My second is that as you listen, imagine you are my guest,</span> <span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">Shelly Edwards Jorgensen. You are the child driving up to <strong>your</strong> family home after a high school basketball practice, and you see it being consumed by fire.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">And at that moment, you know that <strong>your</strong> mom is dead, inside the home, and not by fire but by the hands of <strong>your</strong> father. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">This is a human journey no one would ask for or want. Shelly Edwards had a horrific childhood, compounded by her mother being murdered by her father. Shelly's testimony puts her Dad away for seventeen years. He dies there before his sentence is complete.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">Shelly finds a way to overcome her childhood trauma, the murder of her mom, and the emotional rollercoaster of testifying against her father. She shares how she finds peace and, within it, her calling.   </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif;">In doing so, she even forgives her Father.  </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span st