Penny Maxwell
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Words Become Powerful When You Begin to Set Your Broken Bones
A lot of stuff came to the surface when I allowed God to start resetting my broken bones. Some of it I knew was there—and some of it I didn’t. In the dirt right beneath my beautiful flowers was a fear of abandonment. In fact fear of abandonment was the dirt in some ways. Every …
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Running from the Past
From chapter 3 (“Leaving Hurts—and Home”) of Penny Maxwell’s new book, Setting Broken Bones At some point Mom developed a medical condition, and it was serious. After moving to Bon Air, we had begun attending church, and the leaders there told Mom it was God’s will for her to have this condition. If she died, …
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A Childhood of Pain, Hope for Tomorrow
From chapter 2 (“Growing Up Broken”) of Penny Maxwell’s new book, Setting Broken Bones You wouldn’t have liked my childhood any more than I did. I’ll sum it up this way: At first my family was poor and quite miserable. Then great pain hit me like a freight train. Then we became quite rich and …
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Do You Trust Me?
From Chapter 1 (“The Accident”) of Penny Maxwell’s Setting Broken Bones You don’t get many calls like the one I got right after a meeting with our church staff in the living room of our home. At the start of every year, we cast vision, dream together, and imagine what God has next for our …
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