Page 3: Tina Zimmerman
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Page three of the unfolding is the story of Tina Zimmerman. |
| 0:04.0 | After everything he had put her through, after everything we had experienced in our childhood |
| 0:08.4 | because of him, I just felt like, you know what, buddy, you don't deserve grace, not you. |
| 0:16.0 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:19.3 | Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it |
| 0:26.6 | another page in the unfolding |
| 0:31.6 | Hi this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:42.8 | Is anybody beyond the reach of God's grace? |
| 0:45.7 | The answer we're supposed to say is no, of course not. |
| 0:48.9 | But sometimes real life relationships make us wonder. |
| 0:52.3 | For Tina, the reality was her father was too far gone. He was abusive, |
| 0:57.2 | hard-hearted. He'd abandoned their family. She had lived in fear of him. By the time she was an adult, |
| 1:02.8 | she was angry at all that he'd done, especially how he had treated her mother. And yet, |
| 1:08.2 | her mother always believed that one day her dad's heart would change. |
| 1:12.9 | So when you were born, were your parents married? My parents were married, but not together ever. |
| 1:19.6 | Actually, their marriage started off under very difficult circumstances and it continued along |
| 1:26.4 | that pattern. My dad was in and out of our lives, even before I |
| 1:31.2 | was born. I have four older sisters. And he was never a part of my life by the time I came along. |
| 1:38.9 | He was pretty much out of the home, but then he would come back for a while. He spent time in prison. He was on the road |
| 1:46.4 | as a truck driver, as a salesman, and so he had opportunity for a lot of other relationships |
| 1:52.0 | out in the world. And during that phase is when my mother just began to desperately look for |
| 1:59.4 | something to cling to. And from what I understand, |
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