What are the motifs in Embraced by the Light by Betty Eadie?

Family is an important motif in this book. Ms. Eadie honestly admits that her broken family as a child led her to search for a more stable, more complete family as an adult. Ms. Eadie married the first man she fell in love, married at fifteen and had four children in quick succession. However, this marriage ended. Ms. Eadie, a woman who felt as though she had never had a family, that she was neglected and passed from place to place without stability, wanted a family for herself and now for her three surviving children. When Ms. Eadie met Joe, she felt as though she had found the right man and married him as quickly as he was willing. However, Ms. Eadie was mature enough by then to realize how much work marriage can be and has worked hard at keeping her marriage together.