Category: death of or prodigal child
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Prodigal process
We don’t know where our oldest son is. He keeps in touch with his older sister, but there is great offence between us. He changed his last name. Made other decisions about his life that we didn’t understand. Lotta water 🌊 under that bridge. It’s complicated. We think of our 23yearold as kind of a…
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Turning a corner
I think I’ve turned a corner in my grieving over prodigals and health stuff. I used to cry about that stuff every day. Especially the kid stuff. Trying to maintain an attitude of forgiveness. I don’t want to have any hindrances to God being able to work in our lives. I’m starting to remember the…
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It had to happen
Inevitable. Hubby and I were on a date, and there she was ~ our son`s new mom. 💔 Our son might have been there too; we don’t know. He’s in college somewhere, I think. Maybe he went back to the car when he saw us; maybe we could have seen him. We just don’t know.…
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Early morning chutzpah 🌼🌸💮🏵🌼🌸
Girlfriends asleep Family asleep Hubby asleep Dogs asleep Quiet house Flu-like autoimmune symptoms Already slept off my sleep aid Maxed~out on ibuprofen and Tylenol for today Here I am Jesus: it’s just me and You. I need You; that’s flat. I remember others who are wakeful at 3am: inmate who is stuck with the choices…
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Breakthrough
Looking through old blog entries, and I found this rough draft from right before I started fasting about my family. So I finished it and published it. You ever pray something and then get involved with other stuff and forget you prayed for that? I didn’t even know fasting was for normal-average-people-21st-century folks! I never…
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Bull’s-eye
https://bible.com/bible/97/psa.25.10-12.MSG Our past mistakes and wrongdoings often prevent us from approaching God freely for help. But like David, we can choose to run to God. His calamity was too intense to miss the moment to beseech God’s help. We can have the assurance David had that God would forgive his wrongs and show him…