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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.
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.
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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.”
Who was this young boy?
His name was PATRICK.
With a grateful heart for PATRICK’S life sitting on his grave.
THE POWER OF RECONCILIATION
Since my latest book “Broken” is my personal story of reconciliation after childhood abuse and infidelity, I wanted to share one of the greatest hidden stories of reconciliation that changed a nation.
To unpack this story of reconciliation we must take a trip back 1500 years to the 5th century and the town of Dumbarton, Scotland. There lived a young boy who was taken captive on a pirate ship to Ireland to be sold as a slave to tend the sheep of a Druid chieftain. Although raised in a Christian home, he records in one of the only letters he left behind, that he was in a strange land and knew not the true God. But in this dark place of a Druid nation, God brought him to the Light. Since I am Scotch-Irish, born in Aberdeen, Scotland and raised in Belfast Northern Ireland, I trace not only my biological but also my spiritual roots back to this young man.
He served his master for several years before escaping on a ship taking Irish wolfhounds to the mainland. While back in the safety of his home he heard God calling him back to Ireland, as he heard the voice of the Irish crying “ Holy boy come back and walk among us again”.
This is where the story of his remarkable reconciliation begins. In 432AD He returns not only to Ireland but to the owner he ran away from and seeks his forgiveness. This humble act turns the heart of his owner towards the living God, who offers him not only his forgiveness but to choose any part of his massive land to build his first church.
If you visit Northern Ireland today, you can still worship in the ruins of that first church, high on the rolling green hills and mountains of County Down, where his ministry began to touch not only a nation but a whole continent.
According to (Raymond Edmoan, Moody Monthly magazine) this young boy became the greatest missionary that ever lived perhaps second only to St. Paul. Since the Middle Ages Ireland is known as the Island of Saints and Scholars.
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