I dared to share my spiritual experience with Chris on our way back to Fort Worth. He mentioned that he had been deeply moved by the sermon as well.  I didn’t make too big a deal of the whole thing because I wanted to see how I felt once I returned home. I knew that [...]

The weekend concluded with a worship service on Sunday and an incredible sermon on the Prodigal Son. To say it was a pivotal moment in my life would be an understatement. I was so cynical about Christianity—in fact this was the first worship service I’d been to in many many years. But as the founder [...]

One of the weekend’s activities was parenting classes. That was humbling, but I was willing to hear any suggestions that might improve our family dynamic. What they taught in those two days changed our lives! It made such sense and I wondered how we’d gotten so off-track in the first place. In a nutshell, we [...]

I hate to admit it, but after we dropped Bob off at Shelterwood, I felt a sense of relief upon arriving back home. I don’t think I realized how stressful the last month had been since awakening to that 2:00 a.m. door bell. Let’s just say that I hadn’t exactly been natural and relaxed. On [...]

We were up at seven the next morning preparing for an eight o’clock appointment at Shelterwood. Bob’s sweet gesture from the night before had been replaced with contempt and disregard. It was a short 10 minute drive to the facility. As we pulled into the driveway, we saw a man standing to the side. As [...]

When we broke the news to Bob that he would be entering a 10 – 12 month program, he cried and cried. But he was also very angry. That was particularly hard for me. After all the poor choices he’d made, he had the nerve to be angry with us? I didn’t handle this very [...]