Beyond Trauma

This is the chronicle of a woman whose Christian faith and trusting obedience to the smallest promptings of the Lord's abiding presence, along with her unflinching tenacity to "e;Never give up!"e; brought her back from the depths of catastrophic damage to her body and mind, after suffering severe PTSD, TBI, and sustaining devastating wounds in a car accident that took the life of her pastor-husband and two parishioners. She alone survived...and seemingly against all odds, again and again, thrived. The sober and tested observation of the seventh-century bishop St. Isaac the Syrian comes vividly to mind: "e;God's marvelous love is made known to man when he is in the midst of circumstances that cut off his hope."e;-Fr. Stephen Muse, PhD, LPC, LMFT Author of When Hearts Become Flame and Being Bread