{"id":1052,"date":"2015-11-18T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crazy4fiction.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2021-09-28T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:02:07","slug":"making-amends-things-to-ponder-from-francine-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/making-amends-things-to-ponder-from-francine-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Amends: Things to Ponder from Francine Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>As we begin final preparations for Thanksgiving next week, we must also prepare to see loved ones from near and far. Often times, this task comes with baggage; whether as a result of past hurts, miscommunication, or, contrasting personalities, stresses can run high around the holidays as\u00a0we each try to remember our blessings amidst the chaos of family drama. Below, novelist Francine Rivers shares some interesting insights on the complicated relationship between her mother and grandmother and how this relationship inspired one of her most acclaimed novels, sharing insight on what this fractured relationship has taught her about her own familial relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">~*~<\/p>\n<p><em>Her Mother\u2019s Hope<\/em> started with something Mom said shortly after Grandma died.\u00a0 After Grandma had a stroke, Mom and Dad drove south, speeding to be at her side. She died before they arrived, and Mom said, \u201cI think she willed herself to die so we couldn\u2019t talk things out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mom and Grandma had been estranged because my parents wanted to retire in Oregon, and this meant selling their home and the cottage they had built where Grandma lived next door.\u00a0 Grandma wanted things to stay the same.\u00a0 Mom and Dad wanted a better quality and more affordable retirement.\u00a0 They moved Grandma in with my aunt in Merced and headed north, \u201csetting up camp\u201d in a 16-foot trailer on their forty acre parcel of forest, which was choked with \u201cslash\u201d from previous lumbering.\u00a0 They dug a well, cleared a building site and started work on their new home, building it from the ground up with their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>It took eighteen months of hard work. The beautiful new home was designed with possible future disabilities in mind &#8212; wider halls and doorways and lower counter in case either of them -or Grandma \u2013 needed wheelchair access.\u00a0\u00a0 They invited Grandma to move in with them.\u00a0 She said there was nothing in Oregon she wanted to see.\u00a0 My mother took that to mean Grandma didn\u2019t want to see her.<\/p>\n<p>Words can wound the heart deeply.\u00a0 Writing the story of Marta and Hildemara helped me look at other possibilities of why Grandma seemed so unforgiving, what deep hurts and fears and misunderstandings might have kept her away.\u00a0 Family members don\u2019t always share their life stories and the painful events that shaped their thinking.\u00a0 And sometimes the next generation makes the same tragic mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things to ponder:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do I need to make amends to anyone in my family?\u00a0 Is there something in my past that I should share so my children can avoid the same mistakes?\u00a0 Can I move past the hurt and fear, and extend grace without expectations?<\/p>\n<p><em>Romans 5:8<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin final preparations for Thanksgiving next week, we must also prepare to see loved ones from near and far. 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