The Exact Place

About this book

A three-room house in northern Minnesota with no running water can seem crowded with a mother stepfather five siblings and a dog. It was swampland barely claimed from wilderness where temperatures of 40 below could freeze a chicken house full of hens. It was the place Margie accidentally killed her favorite dog was chased by a timber wolf learned to love work and humor and hate sheep. Her roots were tangled with the death of a father who was killed before her birth leaving her mother a widow at seventeen. This was also where her spiritual awakening began. She yearned for home for a father who loved her. Margie determined to win her step-fathers love and approval but failed. Her stories of her childhood show how suffering ripened the landscape of her life. From her earliest memories at the age of four through dark nightmares she became aware that God received her as a beloved daughter. She had been all along in The Exact Place she needed to be.