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    Brokenhearted Parents: A Workbook for Parents Hurting over Adult Children
    Brokenhearted Parents: A Workbook for Parents Hurting over Adult Children
    Brokenhearted Parents: A Workbook for Parents Hurting over Adult Children
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    Brokenhearted Parents: A Workbook for Parents Hurting over Adult Children

    By Sharon L. Grinder

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    Brokenhearted Parents is for Christian parents who want to heal, deal with, and find spiritual help with the serious pain and hurt they are feeling because of their adult child's choices. Their child's choices can lead to a breakage in the relationship between them and/or God and cause great feelings of grief, frustration, and pain. Some of these choices have caused the child to pull away or leave. Christians know that God intends for them to grow through their hard experiences. But how do they do that? This book is to help parents analyze their feelings by studying the views of God, themselves, and their child. Through this they can process these feelings, come to a deeper level in their walk with God, and find more ways to express the love they have for their child. This book leads them by reading the twelve short devotionals, answering questions, and journaling both in writing and drawing. Parents will also find song references, extra scripture references, and a daily devotional idea they can format for their own use.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateDec 2, 2014
    ISBN9781498201537
    Brokenhearted Parents: A Workbook for Parents Hurting over Adult Children
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    Sharon L. Grinder

    Sharon L. Grinder was raised in Southern California. She got her BA at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, while doing all the duties of being a pastor's wife and mother. Sharon was a pastor's wife for thirty-four years and has a great love and compassion for people. She and her husband David have three wonderful daughters, and twin grandbabies on the way. Sharon loves to write, draw, teach art, read, and spend time with her family.

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      Brokenhearted Parents - Sharon L. Grinder

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      Brokenhearted Parents

      A Workbook for Parents Hurting over Adult Children

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      BROKENHEARTED PARENTS

      A Workbook for Parents Hurting over Adult Children

      Copyright © 2014 Sharon Grinder. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Resource Publications

      An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

      Eugene, OR 97401

      www.wipfandstock.com

      isbn 13: 978-1-4982-0152-0

      eisbn 13: 978-1-4982-0153-7

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      Dedicated to my parents, Merle and Helen Chansler (my mom is now in heaven) who have loved me unconditionally all my life and have prayed for me daily. I thank God for them and for the wonderful privilege of being raised in a Christ-centered home. That foundation of Christ has helped me in many hard and difficult storms in my life.

      In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.

      —Rom 8:26

      Preface

      This book is from my heart to yours. I pray that you will find this as helpful to you as it was helpful for me to write it. I have experienced a fractured relationship with my older daughter and I am in the midst of the healing process. It has been helpful to learn to let God be God and realize that he is in control—not me. My express purpose in writing this is to help others as I have been helped. It is too easy to get stuck in grief and not move forward. God can carry you through your pain and trials and make you stronger, more compassionate and a lot deeper of a person in Christ. God will also give you opportunities to minister to others with more caring and understanding than if you had never gone through this time in your life.

      Take out of this book what reaches to your heart and needs. We all need to work through things in our own personal way. As a pastor’s wife for thirty-four years and a churchgoer for more years than that, I have had many parents come and share with me how brokenhearted they are over the ways their adult children have gone. The pain can be overwhelming at times, but be assured that God knows all about it—he knows your heart, your prayers, and your love for your child. He also knows his ways and those ways not necessarily ours. His will may be worked out through a long process of time or may come quickly. May working through this book be a time of soul searching, growing, and learning what God wants to do in your life. The love that God has for you and your child goes beyond what you can see or comprehend. May you be able to embrace this time of your life as a chance to grow a deeper, closer, and more surrendered relationship to the Lord.

      God bless you in this particular journey of your life.

      Sharon Grinder

      Acknowledgments

      I want to thank some very special people for contributing, helping, praying, and encouraging me

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