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    Broken and Beautiful: 31 Days from Healing to Joy
    Broken and Beautiful: 31 Days from Healing to Joy
    Broken and Beautiful: 31 Days from Healing to Joy
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    Broken and Beautiful: 31 Days from Healing to Joy

    By Julie Woodley and Robert V. Rakestraw

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    Author Julie Woodley has experienced physical, emotional, and mental trauma, but through a deep trust in the promises of God and transforming experience of the Father's love, she has moved from broken to beautiful. She has embraced a life of joy that defies the expectations of others, but stands as a testimony to the profound healing power of God's grace. Join her on your own journey to wholeness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781532602306
    Broken and Beautiful: 31 Days from Healing to Joy
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    Julie Woodley

    Julie Woodley is director of Restoring the Heart Ministries (www.rthm.cc), serving childhood sexual abuse victims and post-abortion women. Her story aired on The 700 Club, Focus on the Family, and Life Today. She coauthored Surviving the Storms of Life (2008) and is the producer of In The Wildflowers and Into My Arms counselling DVDs. She was inducted into the Suffolk County (NY) Women's Hall of Fame (2009). Julie has four children and three grandchildren.

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      Book preview

      Broken and Beautiful - Julie Woodley

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      Broken and Beautiful

      31 Days from Healing to Joy

      Julie Woodley

      Foreword by Robert V. Rakestraw

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      Broken and Beautiful

      31 Days from Healing to Joy

      Copyright © 2016 Julie Woodley. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Resource Publications

      An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

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      paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-0229-0

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-5326-0231-3

      ebook isbn: 978-1-5326-0230-6

      Manufactured in the U.S.A. October 20, 2016

      Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®, unless otherwise noted. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

      Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

      Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Public Domain).

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Foreword

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Hearing God

      Broken and Powerful

      Come to the Party!

      Prepared for Battle

      Determined to Listen

      Dwelling in Weakness

      Finding Courage in Love

      The Powerful Wounded

      Love Revolutionaries

      Victory Banner

      By His Grace

      From Devastation to Joy

      From Disaster to Desire

      Provision in Disruption

      Fight and Don’t Grow Weary

      Where I Meet the Lord

      Filling Up the Canyon

      Greater Possibilities of Love

      Beyond Making Life Work

      Go and Be Blessed

      Third Heaven

      Joy Remains

      Worship in My Tears

      Free Indeed

      Defined by the Mess No More

      Unlikely and Amazing

      Victory from Faith

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