All She Ever Wanted: (A Contemporary Women's Fiction Family Drama)

by Lynn Austin

“Boundaries are helpful as long as they’re not an excuse to avoid issues of forgiveness.

Joelle set a package of Hostess Twinkies on the counter. “These are for you, Mom. To make up for all those times you couldn’t afford them.”

What if there was something in her mother’s past that would explain her behavior? Kathleen knew that she needed to forgive her mother for the mistakes she’d made, just as she hoped Joelle would forgive her. But had she ever bothered to try to understand her mother?

She professed to be a Christian, yet she had cut herself off from them so completely that she’d never even thought to pray for them.

The truth is, we each have a chance to start all over again, every day of our lives, if we know the Lord.”

The Bible says old things are passed away then, and all things are new. You still have to deal with the past and ask for forgiveness, of course. Repentance is part of becoming a new man in Christ. But only He can make all things new.”