Divorce Is Heart Work: A Church Girl's Journey Back to Wholeness After Her Marriage Falls Apart
"What God has joined together, let no one separate." - Matthew 19:6
She believed those words.
She built her marriage on them.
And then one Sunday morning, after fourteen years of marriage, five children, a shared ministry, and a life rooted in faith, her husband looked at her and said four words that changed everything:
"I want a divorce."
In Divorce Is Heart Work, Willistine "Willi" Page tells the story of what happened after the life she thought God had ordained fell apart. Raised in the church, committed to her faith, and devoted to her family, she never imagined divorce would become part of her story. Yet when it did, she found herself facing not only the loss of a marriage, but questions about identity, purpose, abandonment, forgiveness, and her relationship with God.
With honesty, vulnerability, and spiritual insight, Willi shares the heartbreak of a faith-based divorce, the loneliness that followed, the wounds left by church culture, and the difficult journey toward healing. She does not present herself as a victim or as someone who has all the answers. Instead, she offers the testimony of a woman who chose to do the hard work of healing when bitterness would have been easier.
Written with warmth, wisdom, and unwavering faith, this memoir speaks to anyone who has experienced the loss of a marriage, a broken dream, or a season that challenged everything they believed about God and themselves.
More than forty years after her divorce, Willi looks back with clarity, compassion, and gratitude for the lessons learned along the way. Her story is a reminder that even when a heart is broken, it is not beyond repair.
Because healing is not passive.
It is heart work.
And the work is worth it.
