But what about surrendering our will to God and to his plans? Do we willingly submit and lay down our own plans to yield to Him?

When we learn to trust God with the lives of our prodigal child, we don’t cease to have influence in their lives.

I have never been comfortable with the idea of letting go of my children for any reason; addiction is no exception. Even though they are adults and making grown-up decisions for their lives, the advice to let them go and allow them to hit their rock bottom shakes me to the core. Ask any mother the hardest decision they've had to make regarding their struggling child. They will most often say it was the "letting go". The same holds true for wives, sisters, and grandmothers. It

“So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him;...