Length7h 54m
About this audiobook
Interrupted by Grace - sequel to Carried by the Cross, continuing the story after war, military service, family loss, and the struggle to rebuild a civilian life.
At the center of the memoir is a defining moment in 2015, when despair convinced Shawn Havens that his story was over. A simple phone call from his son’s school interrupted that decision and pulled him back toward fatherhood, responsibility, faith, and survival.
What follows is an intensely personal account of trauma, financial hardship, fractured relationships, institutional conflict, unanswered questions, and the search for truth and restoration. Throughout the journey, faith becomes an anchor—not an explanation for every event, but a way of understanding survival, mercy, and the possibility of beginning again.
Interrupted by Grace is ultimately a memoir about surviving the moment that should have been the end—and discovering that sometimes grace arrives quietly, through the ordinary reminder that someone still needs you.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 28, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Interrupted by Grace
2Content Note
3Author’s Note
4The Ending They Wanted
5PART I — THE END THEY EXPECTED
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6Chapter 1: The Interruption
7Morning Routine
8The Rope and the Silence
9The Phone Call
10In the Nurse’s Office
11The Rope on the Door
12A Father’s Resolve
13PART II — BEFORE THE BREAK
14Chapter 2 – Service (A short reflection from the first book ‘Carried by the Cross’)
15Chapter 3: Shifting Ground
16Chapter 4: A Fragile Peace
17Homecoming to Georgia
18Faith, Discipline, and Fatherhood
19Shadows Beneath the Calm
20Chapter 5: The War Within
21Savannah, Tennessee (2011)
22Training in Australia
23Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan
24Grace in the Shadows
25PART III — WHEN NORMAL STOPPED FEELING NORMAL
26Chapter 6: When Normal Stopped Feeling Normal
27Rebuilding a Life at Home
28Unease in the Quiet
29Chapter 7: Pattern Recognition
30Alone in Columbus (Early 2013)
31The Martin Army Hospital Incident
32No Sanctuary at Church
33Seeing the Pattern
34Leaving Columbus
35Chapter 8: Escalation
36New Town, New Hope
37Chapter 9: Erasure
38PART IV — ATTRITION AND CONTAINMENT
39Chapter 10: Attrition
40Constant Surveillance and Intrusion
41Hypervigilance and Exhaustion
42Protective Instincts on Overdrive
43Alone with No Safe Space
44Eroding Identity and Self-Doubt
45Not PTSD – A Different Kind of Trauma
46Eroded by Design
47Chapter 11: The Breaking Point
48Chapter 12: The Interruption Reconsidered
49Chapter 13: The Counter-Narrative
50PART V — ANCHORS, NOT ANSWERS
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