A Family Shaped by Grace: How to Get Along with the People Who Matter Most

A Family Shaped by Grace: How to Get Along with the People Who Matter Most

A Family Shaped by Grace: How to Get Along with the People Who Matter Most

A Family Shaped by Grace: How to Get Along with the People Who Matter Most

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Overview

As a teenager, Gary Morland lived in an unhappy, dysfunctional family characterized by addiction and disharmony. When he started a family of his own, he brought with him those same destructive patterns. Yet he sensed there must be a way to have a family shaped by acceptance and grace, a family that was loving, whole, and at peace with one another. The problem was, he didn't know how.

In this life-giving book, Morland shares his journey of discovering the timeless tools of family peace that transformed him and his family. He shows how these tools broke the unhealthy patterns of the family he grew up in and saved his relationship with his wife and two daughters. With refreshing honesty and humility, he helps readers believe that they too can start from where they are right now--no matter how broken--to transform their family culture and their family legacy and to generously offer grace to the people who matter most in their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493407309
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/06/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Gary Morland is a professional communicator with more than thirty years of radio experience sharing his own life story and helping others share theirs. As a twenty-five-year sober alcoholic, he describes himself as "a guy who should have died but didn't, with a wife who should have left but stayed." If anyone knows the power of grace and forgiveness, it's Gary. He and his wife, Brenda, are the parents of authors Emily P. Freeman and Myquillyn Smith (The Nester). They live in North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Foreword Myquillyn Smith Emily Freeman 11

Yes, You Can Get There from Here 14

Part 1 Your River 19

1 My Wife's Husband: If Our River Can Change, So Can Yours 21

2 The River of Family: Your Role Is Bigger Than You Think 37

Helpful Bonuses for You 47

3 Rollin' Down Your River: Where You Are Now, What You Want, and What It Can Look Like 48

4 The Rocky River: The Everyday Tactics of family Disharmony 61

Part 2 The Momentum-Gathering River 71

5 The Peaceful River: The Timeless Tools of Family Peace 73

6 Contagious Momentum: Our Families Are Designed for Good to Spread 87

7 Get Your Peace Right: The Peace That Transcends All Understanding 99

8 Accept Your Family, Your Role, and Your Limits: It Begins with You 113

9 Be Patient, Curious, and Attentive: Be the Caring Gift They Long For 125

10 Be God's Access: You're God's Hidden Treasure in Your Family 138

11 Model What You Want to See: Show What It Looks Like 152

11 Release Your Family, Your Role, and the Results into God's Hands: He Wants More for Your Family Than You Do 164

Part 3 Your Family River 173

13 Drops of Grace into Your River: Find Ways to Be Your Family's Biggest Fan 175

14 One Big Step in Your Most Challenging Family Relationship: Charting Your Course 189

15 Dock of the Bay: Resting in Your Legacy of Grace 206

Acknowledgments 215

Notes 218

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