WHEN YOUR CHILD WALKS AWAY
A WORD BEFORE YOU READ If your child has walked away There are few things harder than this. Not a difficult diagnosis. Not a financial loss. Not even a personal failure. Watching your child walk away from what you taught them — question what they once believed, or embrace patterns that you know will harm them — is the heaviest load a parent carries. If that is where you find yourself today, I want to sympathize with you. Somewhere along the way, a question starts to settle in. Where did I go wrong? Did I fail them? Is it too late? Let me say this clearly at the beginning: your child’s story is not yet finished, and your role as a parent is not yet over. This little book is a companion to the video teaching of the same title. It is not a replacement for the teaching, and it is not a step-by-step program. It is a resource you can read slowly, return to, mark up, and pray through. Each chapter ends with reflection questions you can use alone, with your spouse, or in a small group of other parents walking the same road. Wherever you are in the story — the early sting of disbelief, years of quiet waiting, or the fragile hope of a beginning return — may the Lord meet you here. ❖ ❖ ❖
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