The Loner's Thanksgiving Wish (Love Inspired)
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Jack has come to town to try to be a good influence for Cade, since Cade’s father was lackadaisical. Do you think siblings can nurture each other well enough to mediate the damage a poor parent can inflict?
Jasmine thinks she can change the entire negative family dynamic by hosting a big family dinner and forcing everyone to “play nice.” In real life, do you think this would work? If you have strife in your own family, what positive steps could you take to improve those relationships? What efforts have succeeded—or failed—in the past?
Mei followed her heart into teaching, and her brother became a vet instead of going into medicine. Both careers were an apparent disappointment to their parents, who had held both of their children up to high ideals and had rigid notions about what their children should become. How much influence should a parent have on their child’s future? Did your own parents express strong opinions about your future? What about your feelings about your own children?
The community church members have taken Darlene Perry and her daughter under their wing, and spend many volunteer hours helping her cope with her terminal illness. What volunteer opportunities exist in your own church and community? What have you done to make your community a better place? Do you feel you made a difference?
Initially, Mei feels that God hasn’t really been in her corner all these years—that He doesn’t listen to her prayers. But He does—in His own perfect way, and in His own perfect timing. Discuss how some of your own prayers have been answered. Were the answers what you expected? Did they come as soon as you’d hoped?
Special thanks and acknowledgment to Roxanne Rustand
for her participation in the
Rocky Mountain Heirs miniseries.
ISBN: 978-14592-1617-4
THE LONER’S THANKSGIVING WISH
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