Beauty Within Balance, (Paperback)

<p><strong>Beauty Within Balance: The Good Bishop Jolly</strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>He was my relative. A distant uncle. And I had never heard of him.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>But somewhere along the way, Jolly's story started talking to mine.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Neither extreme worked. And somewhere between us, I started to find balance.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Beauty is found in balance. Not in everything. But in most things.</p><p></p><p><em>Half of all profits are donated to Duchenne UK and The Jolly Grove Foundation.</em></p>

• Beauty Within Balance, (Paperback)
• Author: Matthew John Rawlings
• ISBN: 9781837095544
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-02-27
• Page Count: 58