Startling Beauty; my journey from rape to restoration by Heather Gemmen was an awesome story.
Heather is raped in her home with her two young children sleeping and her dh not at home. They live in a predominantly black neighborhood full of drugs in a bad area of the city and have befriended most of their neighbors reaching out to them with Christ's love.
She believes it to be her dh who has turned on the light as he is coming to bed but as she looks out from under the covers she discovers a strange black man in her bedroom. He then rapes her while threatening her with a knife.
She tells her story as she tries to cope with the horrible thing that has happened to her and as she tries to forgive her rapist. She soon discovers she is pg. She decides against abortion and she and her dh bravely decide to keep the baby.
This story clearly shows the true restorative work of Elohim! How He can turn any ugly thing in our lives into Startling Beauty!
