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His Hostage heart
Encountering the Unrelenting Love of God
If you're feeling unseen, unheard, and unloved, this book is for you.
If you've experienced death, betrayal, or disappointment, this is for you, too.
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A Wonderful Read
This book relates the author's experiences with devastating illness, betrayal, and a broken heart at the loss of her husband. But through it all, she is able to see and know the love of God. She shows it to us through scripture references that encourage us to trust in God's abiding love. A wonderful read.
Glynda
Quotes from the Book
"Love has a fragrance. It has a temperature. It has a heaviness to it like a coat. Love is a Person--not a feeling."
"You are finally becoming the person you were always meant to be."
"It isn't because He can't find us. It's because we need to find ourselves and understand we are the ones who moved away. It was never Him."
A Look Inside
His Hostage Heart | Encountering the Unrelenting Love of God
Do your scars tell a story of broken trust, hidden pain, or shattered dreams?
In His Hostage Heart, author Donna K. Woolam invites you on a deeply personal and beautifully raw journey into the arms of a Savior who refuses to let you go. Weaving her own agonizing valleys—from surviving a near-fatal battle with chickenpox pneumonia in a sterile ICU to walking through the devastating loss of her beloved husband, Richard, to cancer—Donna illuminates the tangible, unrelenting presence of God in our darkest moments.
Far from a distant deity waiting to punish our failures, Donna reveals a God whose love compelled Him to run heart-first into betrayal, abandonment, and death just to rescue us. He is a God who holds His own heart hostage to His love for you.
Through a seamless blend of real-life tragedy, triumphant grace, and fresh, resonant retellings of biblical outcasts, His Hostage Heart offers a powerful antidote to the lies of the enemy. You will walk alongside Blind Bartimaeus, the Man of the Tombs, and the woman with the issue of blood, discovering that Jesus crosses every boundary to meet the broken, the bleeding, and the desperate.
Inside these pages, you will discover how to:
- Reframe your deepest wounds not as marks of shame, but as testaments of victory written in your scars.
- Throw off your "blind beggar" coat and step out of the false identities the world has assigned you, embracing the royal garments God has crafted for you.
- Drop the heavy "backpack" of past trauma and stop letting your burdens define who you are.
- Find the courage to live in the "Even If," trusting the goodness of God's heart even when your most desperate prayers aren't answered the way you hoped.
- Allow God to be the bridge in your broken, estranged, and warring relationships.
His Hostage Heart is not just a memoir of grief; it is a battle cry for freedom. Whether you are hiding in the tombs of hidden torment or running from a love you feel you don't deserve, it's time to realize that you are the prize—and God will never relent in His pursuit of you.
Hi, I'm Donna Woolam. It's great to see you!
Life leaves its marks... even its wounds. But I've discovered a secret.
When you allow God to define those marks and moments, it changes everything.
My writing and speaking encourage you to believe there is more for you than the past, or the present, the wounds, or even the victories.
Life likes to label us.
The Lord has given you a new name.
You are loved. You are seen. You are treasured.
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Love Tells the Story
"Love is not about how many days, months, or years youhave been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day." — Unknown
It’s called fatal attraction.Love so driven, reason and logic disappear.Sometimes, one person dies—in exceptional cases—both do.
Written in the Scars
Scars sketch the story.
Visible beacons of the breaking.
Broken trust.
Broken faith.
Broken skin.
Broken heart.
I have scars. They voice the narrative of my life.
It starts with my belly button. An ‘out-y’ I coveted to be a bikini-ready
‘in-y’.
That navel is the visible mark of connection between my mother and me. As hers was to her mother-all the way back to Eve. My children carry in their bodies their own marks.
There are other scars people can see. The ones on my knees to mark my sliding-into-base years. The one on my chest when curiosity pulled over a pot of coffee. My right hand from the time I broke a glass I was washing. On my nose, where chickenpox lived.
There are unseen-on-the-surface scars, too.
First love gone. Struggles with my sister. Breaking Daddy’s heart. My Richard’s death. Betrayal by my spiritual leader.
I carry scars from wounds I’ve caused: shattered trust, critical attitudes and acts, whispered words.
Jesus has scars.
I see Jesus before the Council and the Sanhedrin.
The slaps.
The words.
The betrayal.
He gazes into the courtyard as Peter denies Him.
One.
Two.
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