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The Healing Power of Forgiveness After Abuse and Betrayal

BOOK OVERVIEW

Broken is the powerful testimony of Margaret Mearns Bass, who faced the trauma of childhood abuse and the heartbreak of betrayal yet found healing through God's grace. With honesty and courage, she shares her journey from brokenness to wholeness, offering hope to those carrying hidden pain.

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From Brokenness

Every scar tells a story — of pain, betrayal, and survival. Broken begins in the darkest moments of a wounded heart.

Through Forgiveness

In the midst of brokenness, forgiveness becomes the turning point. God’s grace transforms wounds into wisdom.

To Freedom

Forgiveness leads to freedom. This is a story of restoration, peace, and the power of God’s love to make us whole again.

Review

In her powerful and vulnerable memoir, Broken: The Healing Power of Forgiveness After Abuse and Betrayal, Margaret Mearns Bass takes readers on a journey from the "dark colors" of a traumatic childhood to the "vibrant colors" of a life restored by God's grace.

A Story of Courageous Vulnerability

Bass describes her writing process not as a "can of worms," but as a "can of truth". Using the metaphor of an artist, she explains that while she once painted with oils on canvas, she now uses her pen to paint her life story with "words dipped in tears".

The book chronicles a staggering eighteen-year "life sentence" of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her father—a secret she carried while maintaining the veneer of a normal family life in Belfast during and after World War II.

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ABOUT MARGARET

Pastor Margaret Mearns Bass, born in Aberdeen, Scotland and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is an ordained minister, Bible teacher, and author with more than forty years of ministry experience. She has served as a Women's Aglow President, international seminar speaker, and host of the weekly program Maggie's Hidden Manna.

“It takes one to forgive, but it takes two to reconcile.”

As I welcome you to my new website I wish all my readers
“A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!”

Every year I seek to find some fresh manna to add depth to the miraculous Christmas story, which I wish to share with you this season. It is very appropriate at this time because it inspired the release of my new book BROKEN.

The protoevangelium, the plan of redemption, is first mentioned, in Genesis 3:15 and talks of the seed of the woman bruising the serpent’s head. But how can this be since a woman doesn’t have seed? Over the years as I read this it confused me since a woman doesn’t have seed in her womb. God led me to the story of the annunciation of Mary when the angel gave her the word that she would conceive of the Holy Ghost. Suddenly as the Lord opened my spiritual eyes, I saw that ‘the seed of the woman’ talked about back in Genesis was the Word, the Rhema, that was given to her. 1Peter 1:23 writes of the Word being the seed of God that He plants in our hearts. According to the parable of the sower in Luke 18:11 the seed is the Word of God.