The film "Tender Mercies" is about two opposites who marry. He is a man battling with alcohol, bitter over a lost career as a country-western musician. She is a widow whose husband was killed in Vietnam. She never makes enormous demands on her alcoholic husband, never threatens him, never expects too much. Quietly, graciously, patiently, with tender mercy, she trusts God to deal with her husband.
The story comes to a climax when the husband, in the throes of depression, buys a bottle and peels out in his pickup. Meanwhile, his wife waits in bed, quoting Scripture to encourage herself while he's gone. Finally, he returns, telling her, "I bought a bottle, but I poured it out. I didn't drink anything." His life turns a corner at this point. And he goes back to the work he once loved ? songwriting.
Tender mercies ? that's what God uses to change lives.

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