Family Trees And Olive Branches

Families are equal parts blood, duty, history, fights, and future. Families are beautiful, complicated, and infuriating. Pastors' doors revolve with families looking for healing from one another. Siblings hold grudges for years. Parents stop speaking to their kids. People want to escape their families and fix them, celebrate them, and never speak to them again. But what can break our generational curses? What can shine bright light into our dark hearts? What can change everything - even our ugliest family feuds? God's grace and His forgiveness. Family Trees and Olive Branches points readers to the authority and comfort of Scripture as they seek to repair and improve their family relationships. Inspired by Matthew 18:22, Family Trees and Olive Branches is a conversation about grace, the oil that unsticks fighting families. No matter how black the sheep of your family is, how hurtful your parents can be, or how long it has been since you've spoken to your brother, God's answer to family fallouts is always grace. In this book, readers will look at the different types of olive branches in the Bible with the purpose of opening their hearts and minds to spiritual transformation through the work of the Holy Spirit. Each chapter offers lessons of forgiveness, tips on reflecting God's grace in our toughest relationships, journal and prayer prompts, and discussion starters.

Twenty-something Silvia Greco is a feisty and determined young artist, desperately trying to make peace between the warring factions of her family by gathering them together for her younger brother's high school graduation. Although lovable, the Grecos can be a frustratingly stubborn Italian-American family, and in her journey to reunite them, she learns that peace isn't something that's freely existing, but something that needs to be cultivated. In the "Best of List" in "Suspense Magazine!" and with an Indie Reader's 5-Star review, readers of "Olive Branches Don't Grow on Trees" will be charmed, uplifted, and hooked by this energetic, funny, and endearing family drama. If you enjoyed the wit and heartwarming moments of Anne Tyler's French Braid, you'll love this book. Buy now before the price changes! "Best of List" in "Suspense Magazine!" Indie Reader's 5-Star review says, "The author manages to make us care about this family. All of the Grecos are entertaining and their quirks are endearing."

The first book in a family saga trilogy, this is the story of a 23 year old woman's journey to bring peace to her feuding family, while finding direction in her own life.

"Three queers with your extended family in a Southern state? You have got to be kidding." Visiting the in-laws is always a challenge, but Dez Duchiene doesn't know what to expect when his husband, Stevie Langford, takes him and their despondent, melodramatic friend Oliver Perez to the Langford family estate in Nashville. With Stevie's three brothers, two sisters, and widowed mother, new conflicts erupt daily. The eldest brother runs the lucrative family business, a role his sister resents, and tensions simmer over the late patriarch's old-fashioned ideas about family-ideas that likely did not include same-sex marriage. An accounting scandal, a house explosion, and the sudden appearance of an old college friend create a tempest of trouble that threatens everyone. Dez needs his business savvy, diplomatic skills, and more than a little luck to survive the storm.

Silvia Greco is broke and living with her father in New Jersey when her mother asks her for help in gathering her family together for a celebration commemorating her younger brother's high school graduation. Uniting her feuding family who haven't been together in over six years and whose parents are newly separated is a great challenge. Her peacemaking journey takes on a deeper significance when she realizes that her own happiness is linked to the disharmony in her family. Can she make peace in her family and save them from devolving into families like those of her parents with siblings who are estranged from one another? Read this book to find out while immersing in a wonderful world of unforgettable characters, great humor and delicious food! BEST OF LIST, SUSPENSE MAGAZINE!5 STAR REVIEW FROM INDIE READER!

Step-families deal with many unique issues related to their own children, their step-children, their spouses, and even ex-spouses. Some of the concerns may lead to depression and anxiety, and, in worst-case scenarios, suicide. In Neither Root nor Branch, author Mary Jane Grange helps blended families deal with their often challenging situation to live a happy, fulfilling existence. She provides affordable solutions for dealing with depression and anxiety. Using her experiences has a nurse and a step-parent, Grange relies on scriptures to help step-families co-exist peacefully without the use of drugs, alcohol, medications, or divorce. I am a step parent. I could not keep up the pace that was set for my family. I realized I was in something over my head. I was in something that mere mortals could not correct. I decided to be more conscientious about reading my scriptures. Instead of letting the word of God lie hidden in my heart or dormant on my end tables, I decided to look for the laws of depression. I found them in the scriptures. I found the pace that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ created for us in this world.

"Branches of the Family Tree" is the story of a Puritan family and its generations in the New World. Add to that the story of an English family and its generations in English countryside. In the early 1900s a descendent of the Puritan family and a descendent of the English meet in America and marry and create a new family amid the rapid influx of other Europeans into the industrial city of Kenosha, Wisconsin.The story tells the effects on the couple's son and daughter as they both try to find their places in this new world.The author brings to light important aspects of history not readily covered in history books. We forget that people walked farther and worked harder. They coped energetically without complaining about their hardships. In her book Bernice reveals the unsympathetic sternness in human relationships in the past. She shows how that softened through the decades.