Traveling Pants Movie

I went to see the movie Traveling Pants 2. Like the first movie there are four young women that are now starting college and go their separate ways and each of their journeys. They are still best friends and they still share the pants. Their friendship is tested in this movie but in the end it all works out.

What hit me so hard and was so personal to me was one of the story lines. One of the girls lost her mother early in life. Her father basically raised her. Her father decided that he did not want the grandmother in her life. The movie really doesn't say why just that the father thought it was best for his daughter to not see or talk to her grandmother anymore. The last time she remembers seeing her grandmother she was 6 years old. She comes home from college to visit her father and finds some old letters her grandmother wrote to her over the years. She confronted her father and they had a huge fight. She wanted to know why her father denied her her grandmother. The father's only comment was, "I thought it was best for you."

In the movie she makes a trip to find her grandmother. She has not seen her in 12 years. They are reunited and the daughter now knows her grandmother never stopped loving her. For the daughter this brought great peace and joy.

I teared a bit because this is exactly what is happening to me. Why do the children have to suffer? Why do grandmothers have to suffer when they have done nothing wrong? These questions weigh heavy on my heart.