Do you struggle with understanding God's love? Do you find it hard to forgive yourself hiding behind a wall of pretense, a prisoner of past mistakes? Perhaps events in your past have made it difficult for you to understand love at all never mind a God that is overflowing with love, forgiveness and grace. You are not alone.The author takes you on an emotional journey of her life from a very dysfunctional childhood through an abusive marriage into a life that she never thought possible. Struggling with the scars of abuse, abandonment and rejection she explains how God's unconditional love carried her through the most difficult circumstances of her life. Opening up a new life of freedom and peace. Isaiah 61:1-3 "...to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning..."