Job went through it; so did Margaret Norton. In When Ties Break: Thriving After Loss, Norton deepens her personal relationship with God as she navigates a wide range of losses and trials. Sibling abuse, family estrangement, spousal abuse, feeling unworthy and unaccepted, divorce, death, and drug recovery, financial duress, illness, sexual exploration, career and location changes, and parenting challenges weave through a memoir that somewhere along the way will speak to your story or those you love.
Margaret finds healing, strength, forgiveness, and recovery through prayer, as her life unfolds according to God’s plans, not hers.
Margaret and I are both members of Story Circle Network, a stimulating national organization for writers of memoir. We met in April 2008 at my home in the Central West End of St. Louis where we enjoyed a two-woman story circle sharing writing and our experiences with loss. Writing about loss and being led by inner promptings connected us.
Margaret turned the lessons gained during a tumultuous life into a source of wisdom for women struggling with past pain and future directions. Through her Life Transitions coaching service, she shares her belief that life offers many chances to start over, as hers has over and over again.
Norton’s story will reach women delving into the heart of abuse issues, as they ask what answers and comfort Christianity can provide.
—Janet Grace Riehl, author of The Sightlines collection
(Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary and Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music)
