Pearls of Life
Reflections of Faith, Hope, and Love While Facing Life’s Challenges

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Some pearls are formed in beauty. The most precious ones are formed in pain.

The deeper and longer the pain-the lustrous its sparkle become.

Every pearl begins as a wound an intrusion the oyster cannot remove, so it transforms it, layer by patient layer, into something luminous. Pearls of Life is exactly that: a lifetime of pain, transformed by faith into poetry.

Ara H. Assilian was a banker, a businessman, a husband, a father and then, in a single delivery room moment, the parent of a son the doctors said would never truly live. Hrag’s thirteen years became the defining chapter of his father’s life: not a tragedy to be endured, but, in Ara’s own words, “the best thing that I have ever done, or will ever do, for the rest of my life.”

This is the rare christian grief book that doesn’t preach at your pain it kneels beside it.

Readers searching for spiritual encouragement will find in these poems:

A father’s testimony of healing through loss honest about the darkness, certain of the light
Verses on faith, hope, and love drawn from forty-seven years of marriage, family, and trial
The discovery that God is good, boundless, and precious and that His love is ours to see, feel, show, and share
Inner strength for the days when surviving grief feels like all you can do
An invitation to love freely, with no expectations the lesson Hrag taught without ever speaking a word

Whether you are grieving, healing, or searching for renewed purpose, these pearls were formed for you.