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Naked on God's Doorstep

by Marion Duckworth



      In Naked on God's Doorstep, Marion Duckworth shares her story of childhood abandonment and her journey into the love of God. Baby step by baby step, she shares her recovery process and provides guidance to others seeking to recover from childhood abandonment, a blow from which it is not easy to recover. Marion Duckworth provides the tools to help you in your recovery process.

Complete with in-depth discussion questions to help in the recovery process, this book is a must-have for anyone seeking to recover from a less than perfect childhood.

Marion's father was mentally ill with a condition called schizophrenia with catatonia - incurable in the 1930's. She was just a child when her father was institutionalized. Her mother also suffered from numerous health conditions, including a bad heart.

Because of her sadness and disappointment, she pushed her feelings into an inside dark place. She tried not to care when other kids ran out in the street to buy ice cream when the peddler came around.

During her formative years, she felt ashamed, scared and lonely, inferior and helpless, someone to be pushed aside, not deserving of so much as an ice-cream cone for dessert.

Marion married John Duckworth, and they became missionaries in the Pacific Northwest. After eleven years of ministry, John began experiencing health problems and was forced to resign. This set Marion afloat, and she felt her identity had disappeared. She found herself standing naked on God's doorstep - reduced to an ordinary Christian without a place and a purpose. But it's during this time she found herself blindsided by God's love.

She had lived to middle age and spent a decade in ministry before she found out who she really was - that only the God who created her had the right to define her identity.

It was God the creator who had painted the full-color illustrations into her plain book of days. Baby step by baby step, she made her way up the hill, trusting God despite her feelings. In Naked on God's Doorstep, Marion Duckworth teaches us how to do the same.

The Book

Multnomah Books
November 20, 2007
Trade Paperback
978-1-59052-956-0
Memoir / Christian
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The Reviewer

Connie Harris
Reviewed 2007
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