There's an old saying: "Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself."Gabriel Jacob Israel tried to make them all herself. Thankfully-she failed. Neither her sordid childhood nor her troubled teens nor her misguided twenties could stop an almighty God from making sure this once-wayward girl failed every attempt to do bad all by herself.A journey through the raw, real, and oftentimes graphic events of Gabriel's life, The Breaking is the true story of a love that blooms between a young woman and the God who refused to give her up without a fight.You will discover, like Gabriel did, that despite your past, God is well able to set your best days in front of you.