Estranging Novum: A New Thing How did God use mental illness, self-absorption, Waffle House, and failure after failure after failure for His glory and the greater good? Here is the strange and fantastic story of how Jesus Christ pulled an obsessive-compulsive bulimic narcissist out of bondage at the age of thirty-four and gave her true life, purpose, and peace. He made her a New Creation! Angela Teal is a wife, mother, and author of the middle grade fantasy series Brumbletide, which she writes under the pseudonym J. Reese Bradley. She has decades of failure and poor decisions under her belt and revels in God's grace, which is the death of Jesus, paying the punishment that we deserve, and raising us with Him into true life. Soli Deo Gloria. Glory to God alone!