Even though the two of them spent years hurting her, Joyce made the decision to help them at the end of their lives. Joyce gives practical suggestions, and plenty of Bible verses showing this is not how the Bible envisions us living (quite the opposite! The truth is, we’re never going to be able to prevent people from saying or doing things that hurt our feelings. We are all wounded and have issues of some sort or another, but we all have different ways of reacting, healing, and treating others.

God's love flowing through us is strong enough to melt even the hardest hearts, so use kindness as a weapon to overcome the meanness in people.I’m still figuring myself out as a young person and this book definitely wasn’t what I thought it would be.

One of the things we can do is pray for them, if possible help them if they need help and forgive them with our whole heart and even love, not necessarily feeling love but loving them as fellow human beings who might have problems of their own.Joyce paid a lot of money for the very best care available for her abusive father, along with the mother who abandoned her.