My guest today is Author Ruth Axtell Morren who discusses self-sacrifice, not a popular topic these ME-FIRST days. Here’s Ruth:

“The heroine in this Victorian story, A Gentleman’s Homecoming, is strong in the sense of self-sacrifice. Bobbie Gardner proves this in being the mother to her nephew, Sam. Although not his biological mother, she has a mother’s spirit.

When Sam’s father, Luke Travis, comes back into the picture, Sam is thirteen—a sensitive age when it comes to parental relations. He hasn’t known his dad. His only father figure has been his grandfather, an autocratic man who was largely responsible for alienating Luke from his son.

Bobbie is the glue that holds them all together. She welcomes Luke to be the father Sam needs. She has always loved Luke, but she doesn’t let on, preferring to allow Luke and his son to become reacquainted with each other. She has kept another part of her life secret as well: her desire to be a civil engineer like Luke and her father.

It takes sacrificial love to put aside one’s own needs for the sake of others. I saw my mother do that for us kids as we were growing up. She could easily have divorced my dad many times over, for sufficient cause, but she preferred giving her three children a stable home. As adults, we have honored her for that.

Thankfully, for Bobbie, Luke proves to be a man worthy of her love. In the end, she will get to pursue her dreams in an era when women were beginning to explore professions that were previously barred to them.”–Ruth

For more info on Ruth and her books, drop by
http://www.ruthaxtellmorren.com

http://ruthaxtellmorren.blogspot.com

Bravo for tackling a difficult subject, Ruth! Have any of you been the benefactor of another’s sacrifice?–Lyn

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