Heidi Feek is talking out in an open letter to her father, Rory Feek, amid a family dispute over the care of Rory’s youngest daughter Indiana.

Heidi, 37, and her sister Hopie, 35, are contemplating authorized motion towards their musician father Rory, whom they declare has reduce them off from contacting Indiana, 10, and put her in hurt’s manner.

In response, Rory, 59, printed a blog post titled “love, dad” on Sunday, Aug. 31, through which he stated his daughters’ allegations have “damaged my coronary heart,” and that Indiana “has by no means been extra cherished or higher cared for than she is correct now.”

That very same day, Heidi wrote an open letter to her father responding to his weblog publish, saying she and Hopie are “simply blissful to listen to from him” after they reached out repeatedly to no avail.

“You’re proper after all, on-line isn’t the place to settle this. We don’t know in case you are conscious, however we’ve been attempting to achieve you for months now offline, however you haven’t been responding,” she wrote within the letter, which she shared with PEOPLE and later printed on Instagram. “Our hope is that this letter will discover you, so you may know the place our hearts are. Love is motion, not phrases. We forgive you to your unkind phrases. You referred to as us cowardly in your weblog publish for not dealing with you. We forgive you.”

She continued, “The final time we sat right down to have this dialog, and not using a mediator as you requested, you informed us you have been completed being our father. We forgive you.”

Heidi additionally included a screenshot of a number of unanswered textual content messages to her dad that have been despatched at varied factors in July asking about Indiana, whom Heidi says she final noticed in June.

Because the letter went on, Heidi continued with a listing of issues for which she and her sister “forgive” Rory, together with the time he allegedly “deserted” his daughters in the midst of the night time as kids and boarded a Greyhound bus (Rory discusses this incident in his audiobook, saying he went to the practice station with out telling anybody and requested for a ticket to “wherever however right here.” He stated he dreamed of a life “that didn’t have the duties” he had as he rode the Greyhound, however later returned house after questioning who would increase Heidi and Hopie).

“We discovered peace in our personal lives and have taken the lengthy journey of therapeutic,” Heidi wrote in her letter. “We’ve got come out stronger on the opposite facet of our childhoods.”

Heidi additionally wrote she felt “heartbroken” by Rory’s declare that Indiana’s care has by no means been higher, particularly with regard to Rory’s late spouse (and Indiana’s mom) Joey, who died in 2016, when the kid was simply 2 years previous. Rory married a lady named Rebecca in July.

“My coronary heart aches for Joey. You went on to say, ‘For the primary time in her life, she has a mom.’ How are you going to say that?” Heidi wrote. 

She additionally spoke at size of her issues about Homestead Heritage, an “agrarian and craft-based intentional Christian neighborhood” that Rory and Rebecca are part of. A number of members prior to now have been arrested and charged with baby abuse; Rory admitted there might be “a couple of dangerous apples” in massive teams, whereas the neighborhood itself stated in a statement that “in each case of abuse we’ve ever encountered, it was our ministry that uncovered and reported the crime.”

“Love is motion. And we love our little sister Indiana greater than something on the earth. So we’re taking motion,” Heidi and Hopie wrote. “Love, your daughters.”

Along with their letter, Heidi’s husband Dillon Hodges wrote a letter of his personal to Rory that addressed Rory’s choice to cease permitting Indiana to spend the night time at Heidi and Dillon’s home in Alabama. In his weblog, Rory stated that Indiana “completely” misses her sisters, and asks about them “on a regular basis and would like to see them.” Nonetheless, he stated he’d stopped permitting sleepovers as a result of Hopie and Heidi “refused to respect my needs when she was there,” and that the crux of the disagreement was the kinds of leisure every social gathering wished to show Indiana to.

“Whereas I attempted my finest to respect your needs when Indy came around us (we by no means allowed her to have a look at screens, and at all times prayed earlier than meals, and many others), I’ll admit that I usually let her hearken to Disney songs (and typically even Whitney Houston) on my iPhone,” Hodges wrote. “I do know you stated no music, however please don’t punish the women for my actions.”

Hodges stated he’s additionally recorded conversations between Rory and his older daughters. 

“I’ve been shocked and appalled by the way in which you’ve handled all of your kids, so I felt the necessity to doc it,” he wrote. “You’re no hero. You’re no sufferer.”

A lawyer for Heidi didn’t instantly reply to a request from PEOPLE, and it stays unclear if Rory’s older daughters have but to sue him, and what for.

“I do know they’re indignant and pissed off and wish justice for the wrongs they suppose have been completed,” Rory wrote. “But when I’ve realized something in my almost 60 years, it’s that it doesn’t work this fashion…. I’ll readily admit that I wasn’t an ideal father after they have been younger, however I attempted to be an excellent one. And I proceed each single day to do my easiest for Indiana.”