Not Forsaken
A Story of Life After Abuse: How Faith Brought One Woman From Victim to Survivor

Note: I read this book while also reading What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander. As they are both about abuse, their respective reviews might bleed together somewhat. Reading both together, I saw m......more

A powerful resource As a survivor of a violent alcoholic abusive father that had to step in front of my little sisters so he would hit me and not them, I can personally relate to Jenn's story and to how abuse can really warp one's own view of self and everything else. Today, a full 35 years after the......more

In this part-memoir, part-theology of abuse and abuse survival, Jennifer shows that God is on the side of the abused. His heart is grieved by their pain and he has not forsake the abused. She shares definitively from Scripture that God never once forsook her, even when she was walking in the darkest......more

"When evil looms and darkness falls And tragedy is breaking When all that's good seems overturned By God I'm not forsaken For though I fall or wander far I'm not too far for saving And when my Shepherd seeks and finds How can I keep from singing" (229)? So cantillates Jennifer Michelle Greenberg, mother, w......more

If the balm of Gilead were something tangible, it would be this book. This book flows over all the wounded places in your soul, and reminds you that you're enough. Jenn writes with such humility, yet such intense compassion, that you feel your heart healing even as you weep, because you realize you'......more