Becoming a Family That Heals

Becoming a Family that Heals rather looks suitable for just about every family in America. It is written specifically to aid and assist broken families to heal. Unfortunately, at the rate we’re going as a culture, we tend to see more broken homes than whole which is incredibly sad. At the same time, as Drs. Beverly and Tom Rodgers point out, that should leave every couple feeling as if they are not alone in their struggles. I once heard Doug Wilson say that there are no unique sins, just a garden variety. In other words, none of us are quite so very perfect and no marriage should feel beyond repair. There isn’t anything that you are dealing with, than someone else hasn’t also had to work through.

Drs. Beverly and Tom Rodgers know a thing or two about broken homes being that they both came from them. In this book they offer advice from personal experience and by using another family as a prime example throughout this book to share their wisdom and advice. The are polite about the information that they share in they give you the details to their past that you need to know and nothing more. It’s not a tell-all sort of book. They are merely here, with some sound advice, to help see your broken soul through it’s momentary trial.

They spend a lot of time talking about how we deal with past wounds and learn to heal from them so that we can avoid repeating the mistakes in our past history. They refer to this as “healing the soul” and offer four steps:

Return to the Lord (Isaiah 1:26-26, Isaiah 2:3)

Repent of any way in which you took matters into your own hands.

Renew and Restore your promise and commitment to God and His to you.
(Ask the Lord to heal you, GRIEVE, Change your behavior!)

Rejoice in the call He has for you, in your divine destiny.

Becoming a Family that Heals is a Focus on the Family production (being distributed by Tyndale House Publishers) and it is based in scripture and is very inspirational in nature. The doctors are trained counselors, holding degrees in Human Development and Marital and Family Therapy. The book is written almost as one couple’s advice to another’s and it comes across as being very affirming, helpful and on target. If you or someone you know feel like you are in a relationship that needs some desperate help or perhaps just a little fine tuning on your communication skills, then this might be the help you’ve been looking for.

It is well-written and their arguments and advice are presented in a very straight forward (and yet encouraging!) manner. It is a practical book on relationships that reminds you that you are not alone. I highly recommend this one.

Carrie comes by her book obsession honestly, having descended from a long line of bibliophiles. She blogs about books regularly at Reading to Know.