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Meet the person Healing Grace in DeeAnn Brandon's memoir "The Bird with a Broken Wing." Her story takes us beyond the experts' labels of hopeless brokenness into the realm of revelation and the greatest Love she has ever known. Through writing she discovers the "Bigger Picture" Identity and Destiny transform the shattered soul and crushed spirit into wings of freedom. It is the millennial new year 2000, and the world is shaking! The all-knowing media promises universal chaos and ultimate destruction. Sound familiar? World visionaries who once saw DeeAnn's homeland America as a spiritual Utopia are echoing their European ancestor's voices: "We stood on the threshold of paradise, but the gates were slammed in our faces!" Yet from where DeeAnn and her husband Curt enjoy what tastes like a home-cooked meal at Martin's, the train depot cafe in Livingston, Montana, she sees a Glow not of this earth, on everyone, and it is Hope. Revelation himself seems to be DJ on the radio. Like so many of those locals- farmers and ranchers among them- who stand in line at the buffet or stop at friends' tables to visit, DeeAnn knows the meaning of heavy losses: Homelessness/spiritual desecration, divorce, death of a daughter, near fatal flashbacks of childhood rapes, and abandonment with its many faces almost took her life 9 years before. "The One Who Sees Me" never disappeared. The quiet voice within her is always stronger, forever certain, "I love you, Annie." "I will heal you so you can fly," "The innocent (forgiven) behold the face of God," "You are healed, walk in it." Recovery is a process. But Love is a person and healing grace is eternal: His Spirit is where we live and move and have our being right now. Our identity and destiny are unshakeable. Welcome to paradise, Life anew is within you.