Francine Rivers: Atonement Child. Dynah started to cry, deep wrenching sobs of releif. She heard the scrape of her mother's chair and then felt her mother's arms firm around her. Her mother cried with her, holding her and stroking her and saying over and over that it would be all right. Everything would be all right. She was home now. She was safe. They would take care of her. The long days of travel caught up with her. The stress that had held her in a vise for so many daysdissolved in the warmth of her mother's embrace. She leaned into her, Hanging on grateful to have expunged her burdens, grateful her mother would now shoulder them Wow this really hit me. This Paticular paragraph was taken from a part in the Book where this girl Dynah just confessed to her mother somethings that happened earlier while she was away at college. the girl Drives home and the day she arrives home her mom comes home from the store and with in an hour the young girl drops her burden on her mothers lap. I thought Francine did an amazing Job at this one, But God as the "mother"....that one part.... I am home now, I am safe, God will take care of her. yea... wow. I don't know if Francine meant for this connection but when I read that this afternoon it hit me like that. and I needed that comfort.