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Beauty Within Balance
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Publisher Price: $10.68
ISBN13: 9781837095544
Publisher: Matthew John Rawlings
Published: Feb 27 2026
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.12 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Beauty Within Balance: The Good Bishop Jolly
Bishop Alexander Jolly was born in 1756 in Stonehaven, Scotland. He served the Scottish Episcopal Church for over sixty years, lived in poverty by choice, rose at 4 a.m. to pray and study, and died in 1838 leaving behind a reputation so remarkable that the Oxford Movement looked to him as a model of ancient Christian devotion.
He was my relative. A distant uncle. And I had never heard of him.
Dr William Walker published a biography of Jolly in 1852, exhaustive and faithful, but buried in the language of its time. I wanted to bring that life back into the light. So I translated it. Kept Walker's bones intact. Changed the sentences so they could breathe again.
But somewhere along the way, Jolly's story started talking to mine.
I had done everything society said would bring contentment. Six-figure income. Thriving business. A family I loved. A house in rural Hampshire. And I was empty.
Jolly went the other way. He gave everything to God. His locked study. His 4 a.m. mornings. His radical generosity. His complete indifference to status or recognition.
Neither extreme worked. And somewhere between us, I started to find balance.
This is not a self-help book. It is not a theology textbook. It is the story of a quietly extraordinary man, told by someone who needed the story and did not know it until he found it.
Beauty is found in balance. Not in everything. But in most things.
Half of all profits are donated to Duchenne UK and The Jolly Grove Foundation.
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