Still Rooted: A Story of Survival, Faith and Starting Over (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184458540)

At 44 years old, Ellen Grace is sitting in her childhood bedroom in South Africa, drinking terrible coffee and watching a lone tree stand in dry sand outside her window.

She did not plan to be here. She had a career she loved, a home she built, a marriage, a daughter, a life. Then - in the space of a single year - she lost nearly all of it.

Still Rooted is the story of how she got there. And how she is choosing, every single morning, to keep going anyway.

Beginning in Eastville on a snowy Boxing Day in 1981 and ending in a room she never expected to return to, this memoir moves through childhood shaped by faith and violence, a coming-of-age marked by loss and resilience, two decades building a life in sales and motherhood, and a collapse that took everything she had worked for - her job, her home, her marriage, and at times her sense of herself.

It is also a story about a daughter who calls every night. A mother who sets a place at the table without making her feel small for needing it. A God who did not let go even in the seasons she could not feel Him.

And it is a story about a tree - one stubborn, ordinary tree that kept standing in dry ground outside her window, refusing to leave, refusing to stop reaching.

Written with raw honesty and quiet faith, Still Rooted is for anyone who has ever sat in a hard season they never planned for and wondered if they had what it takes to survive it.

You do. Pull up a chair.