The Empty Chair
From Stories for a Parent's Heart with Christine Scott · 00:09:08
Show by Christine Scott
Episode 10: The Empty Chair. For three Thanksgivings, nobody in Christine's house was allowed to sit in her late mother Margaret's chair by the window — not a guest, not a child, not even by accident. This year, with fourteen people squeezed onto borrowed chairs, a knock comes during dessert: Caleb, the neighbors' twenty-four-year-old son from across the street, home a day early to a dark, locked house with a dead phone. Christine's father faces the decision the family has avoided for three years, pulls out Margaret's chair himself, sets a clean plate down, and says the seat has been waiting for somebody who needed it. An original story written for this show, hosted by Christine Scott, about the difference between sealing off the place where someone loved people best, and keeping it ready.Stories for a Parent's Heart with Christine Scott brings you one story or one reflection for a parent's heart, every day of the year — the wonder years, the beautiful chaos, the hard seasons, the full table, and the quiet after.Today's story is an original story written for this show. For fifty more, read Christmas Stories for a Parent's Heart by Christine Scott — fifty original stories for parents at every stage of the work. Get the book wherever books are sold.
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