Think, Grow: Thin Places
February 25, 2010 | Books, She Reads, She Thinks, She Grows
Little Mary was in a thin place. Mom was broken. Daddy wasn’t daddy anymore, and the substitutes for daddy weren’t enough. The boys who picked her up at her babysitter’s house did bad things to her day after day, and she was too little, too powerless to make them stop.
Drugs. Alcohol. Addiction. All part of her world at no invitation of her own.
How does this shape the heart and mind of a little girl with no choices? And where is God?
Thin Places is the memoir of my friend, and author, Mary DeMuth. I know that Mary is an author to watch because her words make me forget that I know her. Instead, I am drawn into the portrait painted with powerful words and imagery and stark honesty in each of her books.
Her story is veiled in other books like Watching the Tree Limbs, the story of a little girl sexually abused under the massive branches and shade of an old tree near her home. But in Thin Places we meet Mary as that little girl, and her journey of faith toward a God she wasn’t sure she trusted, and her journey of intimacy with a man and with her family and friends, when her past taught her that people only wanted to harm her or abandon her.
Whether you’ve lived in those thin places or not, you know someone who is. You’ll never say again, “She should just forgive” or “Why can’t he just trust God?” when you walk in the shoes of a broken little girl grown into a woman of faith.
It’s a must read. For you to see another perspective. For me to once again thank God that He is a transforming God. For each of us to see grace and faith and healing in the Thin Places of life.
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I came from where Mary did. I know Mary’s story without even reading her book(s).
I was that little girl, sexually abused, mistreated. God lifted me out of those ashes and made me the woman of faith I am today! Amen!
February 25th, 2010 at 2:53 pmThank you for posting about this book. This looks like the perfect addition to my library – I am a Christian counselor. I look forward to reading some of your books, too, and getting to know you better. God bless!
February 26th, 2010 at 12:25 amMMMM… sounds like a great read. I had some similar things happen, only at an older age than a young girl. Still it’s hard to deal with and you carry those things with you for the rest of your life. I don’t carry them anymore in a bad way, I carry them to remind of just how amazing the Lord is in how HE can transform you into a NEW CREATION in CHRIST!
March 1st, 2010 at 2:13 pmThank you so much for pointing me to this book. I picked up two copies, one for me and one for the young woman I mentioned at the conference this weekend. I look forward to what God is going to do through this journey I’ve found myself taking. Thanks for your part in affirming what He’s been pressing into my soul these past few months.
March 14th, 2010 at 4:32 pm