These are the raw emotions of domestic abuse victims. Some are on the verge of giving up, convinced they've been forgotten by everyone they've ever known and that even God Himself has looked away. But there is a way of hope, seven steps that will lead you—or that friend you care about so deeply—out of the violence and into safekeeping.

Leslie Barner is the director of publishing for FamilyLife®, a ministry committed to developing godly marriages and families who will change the world one home at a time. She is the author of several books including Encouragement for the Brokenhearted Parent, Our Legacy of Love, co-author of My Heart Belongs to Him, and is an Ebony Magazine literary award recipient. Leslie and her husband, Aubrey, reside in Little Rock, Arkansas, and have four grown children and four grandchildren.