Lord, Keep Your Mansions--Just Save My Children
Let's Say You Grew Up in the home of a conservative minister. Today you are a successful administrator, an author, a camp meeting speaker with high ideals -- and your son is on drugs. His 15-year-old girlfriend is pregnant. He drops out of college. Your heart is breaking. You did what good families are supposed to do. Daily family worship. Uncle Arthur and Bible Stories. Where did you go wrong? Once your career was everything. A big house in the country was important. But now nothing else...
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Let's Say You Grew Up in the home of a conservative minister. Today you are a successful administrator, an author, a camp meeting speaker with high ideals -- and your son is on drugs. His 15-year-old girlfriend is pregnant. He drops out of college. Your heart is breaking. You did what good families are supposed to do. Daily family worship. Uncle Arthur and Bible Stories. Where did you go wrong? Once your career was everything. A big house in the country was important. But now nothing else matters. "Lord, keep your mansions -- just save my children," you pray. Things don't get better. For years you pray, wondering what good it does. Then it gets worse. Divorce? My children? No! In these pages Richard O'Ffill shares how he moved through guilt, frustration, anger, and grief to hope, forgiveness, trust, comfort, and love. Now, with his son's permission ("Dad, after all I put you and Mom through, this is the least I can do"), he tells the story.
Prologue71You Are Not Alone112Great Expectations193Why Have You Done This to Me?284Don't Take It Personally365I Don't Want to Look Anymore436Accepting the Unacceptable517If You Really Loved Me588How to Look Back Without Going Backward--1669How to Look Back Without Going Backward--27410Who's in Charge Here?8211Knowing When to Let Go9012When You Can't Solve the Problem9713If I Had It to Do Again10414How to Be Involved Without Getting Involved11215Never Give Up11916Lord, Teach Us to Pray12717No Greater Love137
