Page 34 of the unfolding is the story of Gina Copeland.

I remember thinking, so this is what it's like to be hugged by a father.

And again, crystal clear words from the Lord that said, yes, and I've been hugging you all these years.

God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time.

He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

The Unfolding. unfolding.

Hi, this is Meredith Foster.

From the time Gina Copeland was young, her family was a mess, but even the worst dysfunction seems normal if it's all you've ever known.

Without realizing it, Gina's view of

her dad spilled over under her view of God. If fathers get angry and drink too much and abandon

you, why would you ever trust them? Here's Gina. I am the child of a Air Force guy, so, you know,

affectionately known as an Air Force brat. My mother was Spanish,

and so my father met my mother in Barcelona, where she was at the time working. They fell in

love, then got married and moved to Germany. And that's where I was born in Germany. And when I was born, my mother had a incident where her family, now, of course, this was

decades ago when they really didn't know about mental illness very well.

And she had an incident, and her family really wrote it off to postpartum.

Well, later to come find out when we moved to the United

States when I was two, she had a total mental breakdown. And part of that was because her family

was not fond of my dad at all and really did not want her to marry him because they could see that he was

an alcoholic. And so they,

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