The Moral of the Story

...there are REALLY TWO giant ideas that run through the whole book and they both come home to roost here in the final scenes. I want to look at both themes today (almost like two sermons in one): the theme of forgiveness (in broken families) and, what is perhaps thE theme of the entire book, benevolent providence – i.e. the Goodness of God demonstrated in the way He governs human events.