From We to Me: Let Me Paint You My Story

On a Thursday morning like any other, Jessica Ellington woke up to coffee already made and a quiet house. By nightfall, she was burying her husband and her two young children.

From We to Me is Jessica's unflinching, at times unexpectedly funny, account of the accident that took her family and the years since. She doesn't sanitize the grief or wrap it in easy answers. She tells you what it was like to sign organ-donation paperwork for her six-year-old, to sit in a hospital hallway lined with shattered faces, to keep breathing when there was no reason to.

But this isn't only a book about loss. Before you get there, Jessica takes you back — to a Southern Baptist, barbecue-restaurant childhood in small-town Missouri, to falling for a soft-hearted law enforcement officer who did the morning routine with his kids, to years of ordinary, boat-trip, board-game happiness that made the after so unbearable. And she takes you forward, into the surprising, God-timed, sometimes ridiculous ways she has kept living: new friendships, new hobbies, an art business that came roaring back, and a faith that got more honest, not less, the harder it was tested.

Written in Jessica's signature voice — direct, a little irreverent, deeply rooted in Scripture — From We to Me: Let Me Paint You My Story is for anyone rebuilding a life they didn't choose. It's for the widow, the grieving parent, the friend who doesn't know what to say, and the reader who needs proof that faith and honesty can survive intact, even after everything is taken.

"Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him." — Colossians 2:7