A Letter from Marion

Hi,

If you stopped by because you have an ache in your soul, you came to the right place. I felt that way for the first half of my life.  

I grew up convinced that I was inferior. For one thing, my father was mentally ill and no one I knew had an insane dad. Since he couldn’t support us, my semi-invalid mother and I lived on charity. Meals were far from fancy and the only fashion statement my puny wardrobe made was “dorky.” Besides all that, my father was a Jew, so I was discriminated against. 

An adult told me that daddy chose to give up and sink into catatonia.  I imagined he didn’t want to stay home and take care of me so I felt abandoned.

Maybe you feel that way, too. Did one of your parents walk out and never come back? Stay home but belittle and demean you day after day, week after week, year after year? Get drunk or stoned? Was he or she preoccupied by a series of boyfriends or girlfriends? Too busy with a career to have time for you?

Perhaps you were shoved off on a relative, shuffled from foster home to foster home or simply left to fend for yourself. You may have been abused as well. So you felt helpless against the dangers that lurked in the dark and angry because you just didn’t seem to matter. 

For years, you’ve been trying to make yourself all better one way or another. But nothing you’ve done has worked. Nothing I tried worked either. Not a decision to accept Jesus Christ as my Savior. Not a loving husband, three great sons or a position in full-time Christian missionary work. Nothing reassured me. Any minute, I expected to be rejected and exposed as a bargain basement human being.

When I least expected it, God revealed His stunning love. Day by day, I learned to live believing in that love.

Here are some ways you can do that, too. 

Read about my amazing journey in my new book, Naked on God’s Doorstep. To read a chapter, click here.

Apply God’s timeless principles by using the study guide in the back of the book.

Subscribe to People Speak, my free newsletter. You’ll gain valuable information and meet others who’ve been abandoned and experienced healing. To subscribe, click here.

Write your own story and send it to me by e-mail. 

Learn about abandonment and its solution in my two monthly columns: “Love Story” and “Information Station”  on this website.