will ever put a gun to your head and force you to believe. I’m shocked by how angry and hateful atheists get at their fellow pedes who bring up prayer or faith. You are acting exactly like liberals, going in to a post just to hate-reply. It’s sad. All we are doing is praying snd encouraging others to pray. If you don’t want to, that’s fine. There’s no need to harass those who want to. We are all on the same team here.
Where i used to work, a group of people got together by the flagpole every day at lunch. They didn’t demand anyone join them. They didn’t force the company to make prayer mandatory. They just got together and prayed, and everyone else moved on about their day.
There’s no need for the infighting. God bless
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I homeschooled mine until highschool. A year after they started, my daughter was a mess. We went through two years of hell, then she REALLY went off the rails. My husband was deployed and she lost it so bad I worried that she was going to get herself killed. I shipped her off to her aunt's in another state for a few months in the hopes that she was just rebelling against ME. She adored her aunt and I thought she'd behave for her.
WRONG!! Three months later and my sister called me hysterical. Both my daughter AND my niece had gone off the deep end. Running away at night. Boys. Drugs.
I told her to hang on.
Two weeks later 'daddy' came home from Afghanistan.
My sister put my daughter on a plane home, then shipped HER daughter to her father's house.
The men saved the girls.
My husband picked our hungover child up at the airport. He'd had security go with him to the airplane door. The five of the men marched the little lady out to the truck as one unit.
When they got home, he had her stand at the front door and strip down to her undies and remove all of her piercings. He passed the garbage bag of goods to me and said, "Go through it and make sure there's nothing valuable then throw the rest away." He gave her a t-shirt, sweats, socks, and tennis shoes. Then off to the gym they went. By the time they got home, she was too exhausted to aruge. She ate some dinner then went to bed and passed out.
And that was her life for the next six months. She went to the gym with daddy, went to work with daddy, ran errands in the office, wrote essays for daddy, read books on honor, leadership, and biographies on great military leaders, ate lunch with daddy, went to the gym again after work, ate dinner with daddy, then slept.
She told us later that two of her 'friends' showed up to 'rescue' her one night. She was so exhausted she was just pissed. "I'm freaking tired and I've got to get up at five AM! Leave me the hell ALONE!!" She said that it didn't even occur to her that she could've run away that night until weeks later.
She had other issues later, but nothing horrible. Some poor life choices. A very short marriage that left her a single mother. She was able to learn, grow, and now she's in a great position.
I'm no fool. I lucked out by the grace of God.
The thing that makes me sick is that I couldn't do anything for her. I had no choice but to surrender her to her fathers. (Both the earthly one and her heavenly one.)
Sadly, your child may have a longer journey to find her way back to you. I'm so sorry. I do know your sadness, your fear for her, and your pain. More than you realize.