Yes...Christians can be more unlike their Saviour Jesus Christ than an out and out unbeliever with compassion and love in his/her heart...oh that people who call themselves believing and saved from their sins' Christians would have a truly Christlike heart and eyes... I know this total rejection as a parent...pray every day for them... Beautifully narrated and so heartbreaking.... God bless, Merle
Thank you so much for posting this story, but it is too sad for me, which shows, I guess, what a good writer he was. Also a very good reading. Maybe, he wrote to show how women were dominated to their own detriment. But to read it now is depressing. Even if it is Thomas Hardy, whose novels I like and have strong women as characters - Tess being one. :)🌷🌱
Hardy's stories sadly illustrate the hard time women endured in his times. They are often misery. Times are much improved today, thank goodness. However, I love Hardy's structured writings.
Such stories are still enacted either by offsprings or their married other halves. They look down on the elderly parent who fall short of their "standard" of veneered classy lifestyle pretending to be high class because of the sudden wealth/ honours gained in their society. Basic self centered selfishness which is a false value from the education they were privileged to receive.
@अस्मिरीति A lady I knew wanted to remarry. Her four children were vehemently against it, so after some thought, she told them that she was lonely, and intended to give up her house, and live with them all in turn, two months at a time. The wedding was beautiful, and the marriage happy. 😊
Yes...Christians can be more unlike their Saviour Jesus Christ than an out and out unbeliever with compassion and love in his/her heart...oh that people who call themselves believing and saved from their sins' Christians would have a truly Christlike heart and eyes...
I know this total rejection as a parent...pray every day for them...
Beautifully narrated and so heartbreaking....
God bless, Merle
Thank you so much for posting this story, but it is too sad for me, which shows, I guess, what a good writer he was. Also a very good reading. Maybe, he wrote to show how women were dominated to their own detriment. But to read it now is depressing. Even if it is Thomas Hardy, whose novels I like and have strong women as characters - Tess being one. :)🌷🌱
Hardy's stories sadly illustrate the hard time women endured in his times. They are often misery. Times are much improved today, thank goodness. However, I love Hardy's structured writings.
Such stories are still enacted either by offsprings or their married other halves. They look down on the elderly parent who fall short of their "standard" of veneered classy lifestyle pretending to be high class because of the sudden wealth/ honours gained in their society. Basic self centered selfishness which is a false value from the education they were privileged to receive.
@अस्मिरीति A lady I knew wanted to remarry. Her four children were vehemently against it, so after some thought, she told them that she was lonely, and intended to give up her house, and live with them all in turn, two months at a time.
The wedding was beautiful, and the marriage happy. 😊
Yes too sad