Destiny's Tapestry

On a stormy night as a hurricane raced up the Gulf Coast and created havoc in its path Betty Gilliland was born on a corn shuck mattress in a barn at the foot of Sand Mountain. As soon as the midwife wrapped her in a blanket and gently laid her in a cow manger Gilliland began a journey through life that would eventually test her spirit courage and most of all her power to forgive. Gilliland begins by chronicling her growing up years during a challenging time in America?s history. Her father was drafted into the war and then abandoned his family leaving Gilliland and her mother to eke out a life for themselves in their tiny cabin surviving on a diet of wild greens nuts and roots. As she weaves through the threads of her life?s tapestry Gilliland recalls the challenges she confronted during her difficult coming-of-age journey as she suffered through hardships physical abuse emotional abandonment and her own self-destructive behavior. Yet through it all she never lost the faith. What?s more she used that faith to begin building a new life and to discover her roots. Destiny?s Tapestry shares one woman?s poignant memories of moving from the darkness of abuse into the light of healing.