The Father Who Never Stopped Writing
During World War II, a British father named Ernest Gordon watched his teenage son walk away from everything the family stood for. The young man...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9.
During World War II, a British father named Ernest Gordon watched his teenage son walk away from everything the family stood for. The young man fell in with a rough crowd in London, rejected his father's faith, and eventually cut off all contact. For three years, Ernest heard nothing — not a word, not a letter. But every single week, Ernest sat at his kitchen table in Bristol and wrote a letter to his son.…
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