Problems are Opportunities: How Controlling Parents Can Lead to God's Grace

Tragedy strikes a family, and the father rejects the mother's entire family. She losses her zest for life, and their daughters, Yvonne and Mary Ellen, live with a fear of rejection. Would their parents reject them, too? Mary Ellen walks away from everything that she sees as unpleasant, and her parents don't discipline her. She later marries, walks out on two husbands, and divorces them. She also rejects two of her children, leading to rejection going to the third and fourth generation. Yvonne tries to avoid rejection by pleasing her parents, but her father abuses her. In the midst of this turmoil, Yvonne experiences God's grace. She now talks to Him about her problems. She later marries a Christian man, and they have problems with finances and her husband's poor health. She realizes that these problems are opportunities to grow in God's grace and experience His faithfulness. Yvonne Posthuma became a Christian at the age of twelve through the ministry of the American Sunday School Union. She is the mother of two sons, who are in ministry, and a grandmother of four: Daniel, Melody, Alyssa, and Joshua. She went to a one-room schoolhouse through sixth grade. She graduated from Bear Lake High School in Bear Lake, Michigan, and Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was a member of Lunch Bunch Toastmasters for five years, and served as Vice-President of Education for two years, and President for one year. She was a member of the West Michigan Fellowship of Christian Writers for one year, and is currently a member of Word Weavers of West Michigan. She was an Administrative Assistant in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College for twenty-one years. She now enjoys her retirement.