Pauline Brownlie contributes Find Gratitude & Be Happy to The Power of Transformation. Her author biography describes a diploma in Christian studies and teaching young people the values she associates with Christian life.
Her chapter recounts a difficult relationship with her father and the experience of renewed contact after thirteen years without communication. Pauline explores the anger, uncertainty and spiritual questions that accompanied her decision to respond.
Christian faith provides the framework through which she describes forgiveness and identity. The account is personal and includes the different stages of a relationship that could not simply be repaired by deciding it should be better.
Pauline explicitly recognizes that another person's story may have a different ending, that reconciliation may not happen and that someone may choose not to renew a relationship. That distinction is important to her contribution. Her biography introduces the experience and beliefs behind her writing without making her own family outcome a requirement for readers.
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