The Best Gift You Can Ever Give Your ParentsFamilyLife, 2004 - 134 pages Perhaps you grew up in a home full of love and encouragement or, like many, one filled with hurt and pain. Regardless, this book will guide you through a process that can bring healing and forgiveness ... and will forever change your relationship with your parents. Author Dennis Rainey shows how you can write your parents a Tribute. He says this challenge is not without reward: Only one of the Ten Commandments promises a blessing. It is "Honor your father and your mother ... so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you..." Book jacket. |
Contents
234 | 5 |
by Dennis Rainey to his mother | 11 |
The Promise | 21 |
Writing a Tribute | 95 |
12 | 107 |
Afterword | 131 |
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