Rape and Redemption
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Nineteen-year-old Donna is brutally gang-raped. The next fifteen years are a struggle between despair and faith: a long, dark journey back into wholeness. God shows Himself to be "a very present help in trouble" (Psalm 46:1, KJV), intervening and orchestrating miraculously. A story of tangible hope for those broken by sexual abuse of any kind, as told to Nancy Christenson.
Nancy Fowler Christenson
Nancy Christenson has loved writing for as long as she can remember.Many years ago she dropped out of university, intending to take a year off and decide what she really wanted to study. She never went back. But when she left the bastions of higher education, she took two important things with her: the discipline of prolific journalling and a new classical guitar. In her single years, she used her journal and songwriting to process thoughts, emotions, and life itself. At 24 years of age, she became a follower of Jesus, and this impacted her writing ever after.When she was 30, she married a wonderful man. The responsibilities of the four babies that then arrived in quick succession left little time for creative pursuits. But in her early 40s she wrote her first full-length book, a memoir, "Yes, I Really Was a Cowgirl." This was followed by a number of shorter projects; then came another major book in 2009, about her marriage: "Made in Heaven, Fleshed Out on Earth."Nancy and her husband, Greg, live near Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada. Their two sons and two daughters are adults now, and the family circle continues to grow with the addition of their spouses and children.She can be reached at nancy@ogdenfish.com.
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Rape and Redemption - Nancy Fowler Christenson
Rape and Redemption
Copyright 2019 Nancy Fowler Christenson
Published by Ogden Fish Publishing at Smashwords
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Table of Contents
Dedication
The Unthinkable
Pregnant and Alone
A Providential Visit
Giving It to God
The Dream
Reunited
Healing
The Triumph of Christ
Other Works by the Author
Author Info & Contact
Dedication
To Donna, who fought the good fight of faith.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
—2 Timothy 4:7, NIV
The Unthinkable
A year or two into my marriage, I was invited to attend a wedding shower for a young woman. As part of the entertainment, our hostess asked if each of the married women would share how she had come to know her husband. The woman beside me, who was just a few years older than I, had introduced herself to me as Donna. When her turn came, she told her story. She said that a nice young man