{"id":305625,"date":"2019-12-19T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/will-you-take-this-boy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T11:00:05","slug":"will-you-take-this-boy","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/will-you-take-this-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Will You Take This Boy?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judy Douglass, tells how she and her husband, Steve, came to foster and then adopt a 12-year-old boy named Josh. 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Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. You\u2019ll find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. We\u2019re going to talk today with Judy Douglass about her experience as a mom who had a son come into their family and, eventually, walk away from them and from Jesus. Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. We\u2019re going to talk about something today that, any time we talk about this, there are tens of thousands of moms and dads, who reach over and turn up the radio, and start to choke up, and start to feel a knot in their stomach tighten because they have a prodigal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was thinking about this the other day\u2014the things we talk about, here on FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, we\u2019re not simply trying to provide information; we\u2019re trying to provide help and hope for people who are in very real, very difficult, very challenging situations. I\u2019m thinking about this in relation to our yearend and the fact that we\u2019re hoping <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners will make a yearend contribution and support the work of this ministry. I just want folks to know what you\u2019re supporting is help and hope for people who are in very difficult situations. You\u2019re supporting answers for them that can help them know how to navigate the challenges of life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I\u2019m proud to say, we\u2019ll go there. You know, we\u2019ll go to the dark, hard places in life. We\u2019re going to talk about things that people are wrestling with. When you said they have a knot in their stomach, it\u2019s real. I mean, they\u2019re laying in bed at night; they can\u2019t sleep; they\u2019re worrying; there\u2019s anxiety. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve all felt this at times and, \u201cWhere is God?\u201d We\u2019re going to say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to help you; we\u2019re going to show you where God is.\u201d When you give to this ministry you are helping us help people right where they live.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think, for Dave and I, we\u2019ve been speaking at the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> for \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t30 years; and we <em>feel<\/em> the desperation in people\u2019s lives. Bob, you\u2019ve been speaking for how long?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014for 25-plus years; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So we\u2019re experiencing the stories\/the heartache, and this ministry has really helped save so many marriages.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; well, again, we\u2019re hoping <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners\u2014if God\u2019s used this ministry in your life\u2014if you want to help others understand how to biblically respond to the challenges they\u2019re facing in marriage and family, make a yearend contribution so that FamilyLife can move into the new year ready to tackle the challenges that are ahead. You can donate, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a yearend contribution. We look forward to hearing from you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re parents with a prodigal, which is what we're going to talk about today, I don\u2019t know how many times I have referred to the verse in 3 John 4, that says, \u201cI have no greater joy than to see my children walking in the truth.\u201d If that\u2019s true, then I think it\u2019s also true that there\u2019s no greater <em>anguish<\/em> for a parent than to watch our kids wander off and head in a direction that is not a healthy direction for them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Probably every parent knows the feeling of laying in bed at night and worrying\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014and worrying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u2014about your children. I mean, how many nights, we just lay there and you just beg God, \u201cGod, please help.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And we carry it everywhere we go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It never leaves our mind\/our heart. Our children are <em>always<\/em> on our minds.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The thing I keep telling moms and dads is: \u201cThe story\u2019s not over. The last chapter hasn\u2019t been written yet for a son or daughter who is still far away. You don\u2019t know how God\u2019s going to work. He can bring beauty from ashes,\u201d\u2014we\u2019ve seen that so many times. There\u2019s not a guarantee that\u2019ll happen\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014but there\u2019s a hope that God will intervene and that a child\u2019s going to wake up one day and go, \u201cWhat am I doing?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I tell you\u2014without that hope, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d have ever gotten to sleep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s the hope that actually helps you close your eyes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I didn\u2019t know you were staying awake; I thought I was the only lying awake. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We have joining us today Judy Douglass. Judy, welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Thank you. It is a great privilege.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Judy is the Director of Women\u2019s Resources for a large organization that we\u2019re a part of, Cru<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, which is formerly Campus Crusade For Christ<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. Judy\u2019s husband, Steve, is the president of Cru International. Judy is a writer, and a blogger, and now a leader of intercessory prayer as you\u2019re gathering with parents of prodigals pretty regularly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, this has been a burden on your heart for many years. Inside the Cru family, we know that, when we get an email from Judy, it\u2019s often about parents, in the ministry, whose kids have wandered and how we can rally around that. I think it's got to be particularly challenging having a prodigal when you\u2019re in full-time ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes, indeed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You have written a book called <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em> that\u2019s really a devotional guide\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes, it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014for parents of prodigals. This comes out of your own story, which your son has read and has agreed it\u2019s okay to have this in print.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> He has; and I\u2019ve checked numerous times\u2014I said, \u201cAre you sure you\u2019re okay?\u201d So did my publisher [Laughter]: \u201cMake him sign off on it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> In fact, he wrote a chapter at the end of the book?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Not a chapter; he wrote \u201cA Word from Josh\u201d at the end.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay; so take us into the story and when was it that you first started to go, \u201cSomething\u2019s not right with Josh\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> The day he moved into our home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You knew right on day one?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> The whole atmosphere of our home went from basically peaceful\u2014we had two daughters, who were twelve and ten\u2014and God sent Josh to us. That\u2019s a story for sure\u2014he moved in; he was almost ten\u2014from a really hard situation with his birth mother, who was a drug addict and alcoholic. He was\/had grown up for more than eight years then with uncertainty\u2014not knowing his dad; his mom consistently saying, \u201cI love you,\u201d and choosing her addictions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, when the county took him away from her\u2014for good reasons\u2014the grandparents were asked to keep him. They said: \u201cWe\u2019re already raising his half-sister,\u201d\u2014who was six years older\u2014\u201cWe\u2019re too old and too tired. We can\u2019t do it.\u201d They were wise to say that, I\u2019m sure; but for him, it was, once more, of who should be important in his life rejecting him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So you intervened and agreed to bring Josh into your home. You had to know\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes and no. Actually, God had told me years before.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes, I want to hear that story. You are\/you wrote about that; and that's very, very interesting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> So, we had two girls. I didn\u2019t have my first child until I was 36 and, then, I had another one at 38. I was content; I was eager to get back more in the ministry. I had kind of stepped away for a while and God said, \u201cI want you to have another baby.\u201d I went, \u201cNo, thank you.\u201d He said, \u201cNo, I want you to.\u201d I went, \u201cI\u2019d rather not.\u201d He says, \u201cNo, I\u2019d like you to.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI got pregnant and, then, I got excited; then I had a miscarriage. Then I was mad at God; I just said, \u201cWhy would You tell me to do this if You\u2019re just going to turn around and take this child away?\u201d I went away for a while. I guess Steve must\u2019ve taken care of the children\/the girls. I don\u2019t know who did other things that were my responsibilities; but anyway, for about a month, all I was doing was talking to God and trying to listen and understand what He was doing in my life with this: \u201cDo this,\u201d and taking away something that I was excited about by then. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt the end of that time, God really said to me\u2014I\u2019m not sure how, but He did\u2014He said, \u201cI\u2019m going to send you a son, and you don\u2019t need to do anything about it.\u201d I went, \u201cIt\u2019s on You; that\u2019s fine.\u201d I told Steve; I didn\u2019t get pregnant. He said, \u201cDo you think we should look into adopting?\u201d I went: \u201cNo, I think this is on God. He said He would do it; we didn\u2019t have to.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo years passed\u2014several\u2014and I said: \u201cYou know, I really am happy. Let\u2019s just forget the boy. I don\u2019t need another child.\u201d He said, \u201cI\u2019m sending you a son.\u201d Then right before we moved from California to Florida, He said, \u201cWhen you get to Florida, someone will say, \u2018Can you take this boy?\u2019\u201d I went, \u201cIf that happens, then I guess this isn\u2019t all my imagination.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThree weeks after we got to Florida, a new friend said, \u201cBy the way, do you know someone who could take an eight-year-old boy?\u201d I just looked at her and tears came, so she started crying when I cried. She\u2019s the best friend of Josh\u2019s grandparents. They had said, \u201cNo, they couldn\u2019t keep him,\u201d and so he was going into the foster care system; and she just couldn\u2019t have that at all, so she went to work. All these Cru people were moving [in], she said, \u201cCertainly, one of them would take this boy.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe said, \u201cYes, we will enter the process,\u201d but making sure we didn\u2019t make it happen\u2014that we were leaving it in God\u2019s hands if He wanted it to happen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And your girls were onboard with this as well? Had you told them your story?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> I don\u2019t remember if I told them <em>all<\/em> of the story, but they were excited about it. They thought, \u201cOh that\u2019ll be fun to have a little brother,\u201d until a year later, when he actually moved in with us and life <em>changed<\/em>. He had so many needs and so many issues. He just had this high need for center of attention, so nobody else could say much of anything; because he was always grabbing the attention.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Was there any thought of, \u201cOkay; God sort of told us this is going to happen, so God\u2019s bringing us this boy. It won\u2019t be that hard; God\u2019s in it. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I was thinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cIt won\u2019t be as hard as it was\u201d; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> That\u2019s our assumption.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy: <\/strong>It was exciting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: \u201c<\/strong>That does it. This is a good thing; this will be <em>great<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u201cAnd I don\u2019t have to live through baby- and toddlerhood; I\u2019m getting a kid.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, this kid, who was almost ten\u2014he was big; he was two grades behind; he could barely read or write. He had RAD, which is Reactive Attachment Disorder\u2014it\u2019s like: \u201cNo one has been trustworthy in my life; you won\u2019t be either.\u201d He built this wall around us to keep us from getting in, emotionally. He appreciated the good things we did for him, which were many; but he would not, in any way, connect with us. For the girls, they were disappointed; because they really wanted to connect with this little brother that they had. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt the end of three years, the county terminated his mother\u2019s rights. Then the court said: \u201cYes, she\u2019s gone; so now he\u2019s up for adoption. Do you want him?\u201d It took us a while to say, \u201cYes.\u201d We had a little family meeting, once a month, on the weekend he spent with his grandparents. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m pretty sure, when God said, \u201cI\u2019m sending you a son,\u201d it wasn\u2019t for three years; that it was forever. Steve was very concerned that he was <em>such<\/em> a distraction; he was like: \u201cI don\u2019t see how we can do this. I don\u2019t know that God wants it.\u201d I just said, \u201cI just think that God sent him to us, and he was a gift. God said this is a gift.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe had this meeting, and Steve asked Michelle first. Now, Michelle is a counselor. She\u2019s been a counselor since she\u2019s been about 12; all her friends would come to her. She\u2019s just a loving, compassionate, understanding person. She said, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know if we should keep him; but I don\u2019t want to ruin the rest of his life by rejecting him\u201d; because, even at 12, she understood that that\u2019s one more rejection: \u201cHow many can a person take?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow Debbie was 14\u2014very, very 14\u2014very self-focused and not really making the Lord a priority in her life. Steve\u2019s thinking, \u201cShe\u2019s going to say, \u2018No way.\u2019\u201d She said, \u201cYou know, we just need to suffer gladly. God sent him to us; He must have things to teach <em>us<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s what your 14-year-old daughter said? Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> We were all\u2014I mean, silence; it\u2019s like, \u201cWho are you?!\u201d Steve said, \u201cThis is of God.\u201d We said, \u201cYes\u201d\u2014\u201cHe\u2019d said, \u2018Yes\u2019; we said, \u2018Yes.\u2019\u201d We went to court; he was our son. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThings got a lot worse because he was going into middle school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So he\u2019s at the beginning of adolescence, where children are starting to ask the question: \u201cWho am I?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cWhat am I good at?\u201d \u201cWhat am I valued for?\u201d Here\u2019s a son, with a lot of scarring in his past\/a lot of rejection in his past\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014and this is one of those times when\u2014I\u2019ve just talked with enough parents of adopted kids\u2014in the onset of adolescence, as they move through adolescence\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u2014it\u2019s the hardest time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014that\u2019s the time when they\u2019re starting to figure out, \u201cDo I even belong here at all?\u201d How did Josh start to act out as a middle schooler?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy: <\/strong>Well, first of all, he\u2019s two years older than all these sixth graders. They were small; he was big. He acted out at school; he became a bully. He got kicked off the bus, because he was always stirring things up. Teachers couldn\u2019t teach with him in the room because of his ADD. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, the principal said, \u201cOne more incident and he\u2019s out of here.\u201d We\u2019re thinking, \u201cLord, what do we do?\u201d We had tried counseling; we\u2019d tried programs that the school recommended\/that we found; and nothing was making a difference. So God led us to a local Christian residential program that we put him in. He agreed to it; he was there for a year-and-a-half.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> How old was he at this point?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> He was 14. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay, so he\u2019s in the treatment program for a year-and-a-half. You guys are praying for him. Did you feel like: \u201cMaybe we found a turning point here\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> We did; sort of. It was\u2014treatment wouldn\u2019t be the right word\u2014it\u2019s not a formal treatment. It is a Christian rehab kind of thing, and we had to go through it too\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Oh, wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u2014which was good and not always easy. We had to go to counseling there; we had to be there. At first, we couldn\u2019t be there; but then we had to. It was a couple\u2014well, several really wonderful things happened there. One, we were forced to connect with him; he, therefore, was forced to connect with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> What did that look like? In what ways were you connecting?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> We\u2014twice a week, we had to be there; and we had to spend time with him. We talked, and we got to know him; and that was a great thing. Because we had to be with him, the girls did, too; so they developed relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Good things that happened included that he got his mind <em>filled<\/em> with the Word of God. He still knows lots of Scripture as a result of that. While he was there, he met Jesus. His house parents led him to Christ and baptized him, and they are still important in his life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe learned how to work the program and graduated\u2014that\u2019s what they all do, you know\u2014they learn how to work the program. They do what they\u2019re expected so they can move forward and get out. He did that well. Some of that was manipulative; some of that was genuine\u2014that he really was growing; and he\u2019d learned a lot, and he was feeling loved. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s what happened to me. All this time, up until when he came to Christ, we were doing the right thing\/the good thing. God sent him to us; we\u2019re being good parents to him; we\u2019re showing love to him. But there was no emotion; it was growing some. The night that he came to Christ, and they called me and told me, God called on me to just pray, and pray, and pray, and resist the devil on his behalf. He said, \u201cOkay; now, loving him and praying for him is your assignment for the future.\u201d So that\u2019s what I did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You know, I remember being on a seminary campus and meeting a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener\u2014this was a number of years ago. This listener had heard us talk about adoption on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. We\u2019ve always been very pro-adoption: encouraging parents to pray about it, to consider it, to be open to this. This is a part of God\u2019s design for the orphan\u2014that we would rescue orphans; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This guy came up to me and he said, \u201cYou guys need to be telling the whole story.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Because he said, \u201cIt\u2019s easy for us to get into a romanticized vision of: \u2018We\u2019re going to go rescue somebody, and they\u2019re going to be eternally grateful for our love and our grace,\u2019\u201d\u2014and this was an adoptive dad\u2014and he said, \u201cThis is the hardest thing we\u2019ve ever done as parents.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy: <\/strong>Absolutely. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So over the years, we\u2019ve tried to say to moms and dads: \u201cLook, this is a noble calling, and it\u2019s something you need to make sure God\u2019s calling you to. Don\u2019t go into it with a sense of: \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going to be wonderful.\u2019 Go into it with a sense of: \u2018God has made it clear this is what we need to do<em>.<\/em>\u2019 Then know, in the process, that whatever\u2019s going on with your adopted son or daughter\u2014they\u2019re in a better place than they would have been if you hadn\u2019t entered their life.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo even as you see and go, \u201cThis isn\u2019t turning out the way I want it to turn out,\u201d just know it\u2019s turning out better than it would have been if you weren\u2019t a part of this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u2014especially for the adopted child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes, exactly; well, mostly for the adopted child; that child would be in a world of hurt if you hadn\u2019t stepped in. You may be looking, going, \u201cThis isn\u2019t going well.\u201d For them, it\u2019s much better than it would have been otherwise. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI say all of that\u2014and Judy, your story and your book, <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em>\u2014is an attempt to say, \u201cThis is a good and godly calling;but it\u2019s when you go into, eyes wide open\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Eyes wide open, on your knees.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cand knowing you\u2019re called by God to do it,\u201d so that, when you face the obstacles\/the kind of obstacles that you\u2019ve described today, you go: \u201cI\u2019m here because God called me to. Even if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, He is with me; and His rod and His staff will comfort me in the midst of the anguish that I\u2019m dealing with.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And what a picture. As I\u2019m listening to you, Judy, I\u2019m thinking\/here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking, \u201cThis is what God feels\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cabout us. We\u2019re\/we\u2019re Josh.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Oh absolutely; we are <em>all<\/em> prodigals.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And your love for him is just the same as God\u2019s love for us. Can you imagine what God thinks of all the crazy decisions we make and, yet, He never stops\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014loving us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I would encourage moms and dads, who are thinking about this\u2014or who have brought a son or a daughter into their home, either through adoption, or maybe you\u2019ve got a natural-born son or daughter, who has wandered off\u2014Judy\u2019s book is designed to walk with you through 90 days of this journey with thoughts for you to reflect on: the Scriptures; prayers you can pray. It\u2019s a 90-day devotional for parents who are in the wilderness. It\u2019s called <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can order a copy of the book from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call to order at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com. You can call to order Judy Douglass\u2019s book, <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em>; our number is 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201dF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know every time that we touch on this subject, we are going near where a lot of people are in significant pain. One of the things we want to do, here at FamilyLife, is to be here for you when you face the kinds of challenges that all of us face in our marriages and in our families. Those challenges that come from bad choices that people make or from circumstances that we never expected: \u201cWhat does the Bible say about those things?\u201d \u201cHow do we walk through those in a way that brings honor to God and that keeps us close to Him?\u201d That\u2019s what <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is all about\u2014providing you with practical biblical help and hope for your marriage and your family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI mention that because we are two weeks away, now, from the start of a new year. This is an important season for us, here at FamilyLife. The next two weeks will determine, in large part, what the following 12 months look like, whether <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is able to continue with the ministry that we have, and even expand into the future, or whether we have to pull back. A lot of that depends on whether listeners, in the next two weeks, are able to help with a donation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe good news is we have friends of the ministry, who have stepped forward and said they will match every donation we receive this month, dollar for dollar. The amount of that matching gift has just, in recent days, been increased. It\u2019s now a $3 million matching-gift fund. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want to be able to take full advantage of that matching gift, which means we need <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners to be as generous as you can be in making a yearend donation. If God has used the ministry of FamilyLife in your life\/you want to see it continue in the year ahead for you, and for your friends, and neighbors, make as generous a yearend contribution as you can so that we can continue this work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com and donate online. Or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate. If you donation is $50 or more, we\u2019d love to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d by sending you a new devotional for couples called <em>The Story of Us<\/em>. Please pray for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> as we approach yearend. Pray that we\u2019d be able to take full advantage of this, now, $3 million matching-gift fund. Will you do that for us?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe hope you can be back with us, again, tomorrow. We\u2019re going to continue to talk with Judy Douglass about her experience as a mom of a young man, who walked away from her, and from his family, and from God. We\u2019ll continue that conversation tomorrow. I hope you can be here for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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She tells how their home life turned upside down once he became part of their family.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2019-12-19.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, December 19<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. You\u2019ll find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. We\u2019re going to talk today with Judy Douglass about her experience as a mom who had a son come into their family and, eventually, walk away from them and from Jesus. Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. We\u2019re going to talk about something today that, any time we talk about this, there are tens of thousands of moms and dads, who reach over and turn up the radio, and start to choke up, and start to feel a knot in their stomach tighten because they have a prodigal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was thinking about this the other day\u2014the things we talk about, here on FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, we\u2019re not simply trying to provide information; we\u2019re trying to provide help and hope for people who are in very real, very difficult, very challenging situations. I\u2019m thinking about this in relation to our yearend and the fact that we\u2019re hoping <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners will make a yearend contribution and support the work of this ministry. I just want folks to know what you\u2019re supporting is help and hope for people who are in very difficult situations. You\u2019re supporting answers for them that can help them know how to navigate the challenges of life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I\u2019m proud to say, we\u2019ll go there. You know, we\u2019ll go to the dark, hard places in life. We\u2019re going to talk about things that people are wrestling with. When you said they have a knot in their stomach, it\u2019s real. I mean, they\u2019re laying in bed at night; they can\u2019t sleep; they\u2019re worrying; there\u2019s anxiety. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve all felt this at times and, \u201cWhere is God?\u201d We\u2019re going to say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to help you; we\u2019re going to show you where God is.\u201d When you give to this ministry you are helping us help people right where they live.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think, for Dave and I, we\u2019ve been speaking at the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> for \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t30 years; and we <em>feel<\/em> the desperation in people\u2019s lives. Bob, you\u2019ve been speaking for how long?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014for 25-plus years; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So we\u2019re experiencing the stories\/the heartache, and this ministry has really helped save so many marriages.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; well, again, we\u2019re hoping <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners\u2014if God\u2019s used this ministry in your life\u2014if you want to help others understand how to biblically respond to the challenges they\u2019re facing in marriage and family, make a yearend contribution so that FamilyLife can move into the new year ready to tackle the challenges that are ahead. You can donate, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a yearend contribution. We look forward to hearing from you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re parents with a prodigal, which is what we're going to talk about today, I don\u2019t know how many times I have referred to the verse in 3 John 4, that says, \u201cI have no greater joy than to see my children walking in the truth.\u201d If that\u2019s true, then I think it\u2019s also true that there\u2019s no greater <em>anguish<\/em> for a parent than to watch our kids wander off and head in a direction that is not a healthy direction for them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Probably every parent knows the feeling of laying in bed at night and worrying\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014and worrying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u2014about your children. I mean, how many nights, we just lay there and you just beg God, \u201cGod, please help.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And we carry it everywhere we go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It never leaves our mind\/our heart. Our children are <em>always<\/em> on our minds.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The thing I keep telling moms and dads is: \u201cThe story\u2019s not over. The last chapter hasn\u2019t been written yet for a son or daughter who is still far away. You don\u2019t know how God\u2019s going to work. He can bring beauty from ashes,\u201d\u2014we\u2019ve seen that so many times. There\u2019s not a guarantee that\u2019ll happen\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014but there\u2019s a hope that God will intervene and that a child\u2019s going to wake up one day and go, \u201cWhat am I doing?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I tell you\u2014without that hope, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d have ever gotten to sleep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s the hope that actually helps you close your eyes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I didn\u2019t know you were staying awake; I thought I was the only lying awake. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We have joining us today Judy Douglass. Judy, welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Thank you. It is a great privilege.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Judy is the Director of Women\u2019s Resources for a large organization that we\u2019re a part of, Cru<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, which is formerly Campus Crusade For Christ<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. Judy\u2019s husband, Steve, is the president of Cru International. Judy is a writer, and a blogger, and now a leader of intercessory prayer as you\u2019re gathering with parents of prodigals pretty regularly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, this has been a burden on your heart for many years. Inside the Cru family, we know that, when we get an email from Judy, it\u2019s often about parents, in the ministry, whose kids have wandered and how we can rally around that. I think it's got to be particularly challenging having a prodigal when you\u2019re in full-time ministry.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes, indeed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You have written a book called <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em> that\u2019s really a devotional guide\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes, it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014for parents of prodigals. This comes out of your own story, which your son has read and has agreed it\u2019s okay to have this in print.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> He has; and I\u2019ve checked numerous times\u2014I said, \u201cAre you sure you\u2019re okay?\u201d So did my publisher [Laughter]: \u201cMake him sign off on it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> In fact, he wrote a chapter at the end of the book?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Not a chapter; he wrote \u201cA Word from Josh\u201d at the end.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay; so take us into the story and when was it that you first started to go, \u201cSomething\u2019s not right with Josh\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> The day he moved into our home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> You knew right on day one?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> The whole atmosphere of our home went from basically peaceful\u2014we had two daughters, who were twelve and ten\u2014and God sent Josh to us. That\u2019s a story for sure\u2014he moved in; he was almost ten\u2014from a really hard situation with his birth mother, who was a drug addict and alcoholic. He was\/had grown up for more than eight years then with uncertainty\u2014not knowing his dad; his mom consistently saying, \u201cI love you,\u201d and choosing her addictions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, when the county took him away from her\u2014for good reasons\u2014the grandparents were asked to keep him. They said: \u201cWe\u2019re already raising his half-sister,\u201d\u2014who was six years older\u2014\u201cWe\u2019re too old and too tired. We can\u2019t do it.\u201d They were wise to say that, I\u2019m sure; but for him, it was, once more, of who should be important in his life rejecting him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So you intervened and agreed to bring Josh into your home. You had to know\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes and no. Actually, God had told me years before.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes, I want to hear that story. You are\/you wrote about that; and that's very, very interesting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> So, we had two girls. I didn\u2019t have my first child until I was 36 and, then, I had another one at 38. I was content; I was eager to get back more in the ministry. I had kind of stepped away for a while and God said, \u201cI want you to have another baby.\u201d I went, \u201cNo, thank you.\u201d He said, \u201cNo, I want you to.\u201d I went, \u201cI\u2019d rather not.\u201d He says, \u201cNo, I\u2019d like you to.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI got pregnant and, then, I got excited; then I had a miscarriage. Then I was mad at God; I just said, \u201cWhy would You tell me to do this if You\u2019re just going to turn around and take this child away?\u201d I went away for a while. I guess Steve must\u2019ve taken care of the children\/the girls. I don\u2019t know who did other things that were my responsibilities; but anyway, for about a month, all I was doing was talking to God and trying to listen and understand what He was doing in my life with this: \u201cDo this,\u201d and taking away something that I was excited about by then. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt the end of that time, God really said to me\u2014I\u2019m not sure how, but He did\u2014He said, \u201cI\u2019m going to send you a son, and you don\u2019t need to do anything about it.\u201d I went, \u201cIt\u2019s on You; that\u2019s fine.\u201d I told Steve; I didn\u2019t get pregnant. He said, \u201cDo you think we should look into adopting?\u201d I went: \u201cNo, I think this is on God. He said He would do it; we didn\u2019t have to.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo years passed\u2014several\u2014and I said: \u201cYou know, I really am happy. Let\u2019s just forget the boy. I don\u2019t need another child.\u201d He said, \u201cI\u2019m sending you a son.\u201d Then right before we moved from California to Florida, He said, \u201cWhen you get to Florida, someone will say, \u2018Can you take this boy?\u2019\u201d I went, \u201cIf that happens, then I guess this isn\u2019t all my imagination.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThree weeks after we got to Florida, a new friend said, \u201cBy the way, do you know someone who could take an eight-year-old boy?\u201d I just looked at her and tears came, so she started crying when I cried. She\u2019s the best friend of Josh\u2019s grandparents. They had said, \u201cNo, they couldn\u2019t keep him,\u201d and so he was going into the foster care system; and she just couldn\u2019t have that at all, so she went to work. All these Cru people were moving [in], she said, \u201cCertainly, one of them would take this boy.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe said, \u201cYes, we will enter the process,\u201d but making sure we didn\u2019t make it happen\u2014that we were leaving it in God\u2019s hands if He wanted it to happen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> And your girls were onboard with this as well? Had you told them your story?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> I don\u2019t remember if I told them <em>all<\/em> of the story, but they were excited about it. They thought, \u201cOh that\u2019ll be fun to have a little brother,\u201d until a year later, when he actually moved in with us and life <em>changed<\/em>. He had so many needs and so many issues. He just had this high need for center of attention, so nobody else could say much of anything; because he was always grabbing the attention.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Was there any thought of, \u201cOkay; God sort of told us this is going to happen, so God\u2019s bringing us this boy. It won\u2019t be that hard; God\u2019s in it. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I was thinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cIt won\u2019t be as hard as it was\u201d; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> That\u2019s our assumption.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy: <\/strong>It was exciting.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: \u201c<\/strong>That does it. This is a good thing; this will be <em>great<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u201cAnd I don\u2019t have to live through baby- and toddlerhood; I\u2019m getting a kid.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, this kid, who was almost ten\u2014he was big; he was two grades behind; he could barely read or write. He had RAD, which is Reactive Attachment Disorder\u2014it\u2019s like: \u201cNo one has been trustworthy in my life; you won\u2019t be either.\u201d He built this wall around us to keep us from getting in, emotionally. He appreciated the good things we did for him, which were many; but he would not, in any way, connect with us. For the girls, they were disappointed; because they really wanted to connect with this little brother that they had. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt the end of three years, the county terminated his mother\u2019s rights. Then the court said: \u201cYes, she\u2019s gone; so now he\u2019s up for adoption. Do you want him?\u201d It took us a while to say, \u201cYes.\u201d We had a little family meeting, once a month, on the weekend he spent with his grandparents. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m pretty sure, when God said, \u201cI\u2019m sending you a son,\u201d it wasn\u2019t for three years; that it was forever. Steve was very concerned that he was <em>such<\/em> a distraction; he was like: \u201cI don\u2019t see how we can do this. I don\u2019t know that God wants it.\u201d I just said, \u201cI just think that God sent him to us, and he was a gift. God said this is a gift.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe had this meeting, and Steve asked Michelle first. Now, Michelle is a counselor. She\u2019s been a counselor since she\u2019s been about 12; all her friends would come to her. She\u2019s just a loving, compassionate, understanding person. She said, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know if we should keep him; but I don\u2019t want to ruin the rest of his life by rejecting him\u201d; because, even at 12, she understood that that\u2019s one more rejection: \u201cHow many can a person take?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow Debbie was 14\u2014very, very 14\u2014very self-focused and not really making the Lord a priority in her life. Steve\u2019s thinking, \u201cShe\u2019s going to say, \u2018No way.\u2019\u201d She said, \u201cYou know, we just need to suffer gladly. God sent him to us; He must have things to teach <em>us<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> That\u2019s what your 14-year-old daughter said? Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> We were all\u2014I mean, silence; it\u2019s like, \u201cWho are you?!\u201d Steve said, \u201cThis is of God.\u201d We said, \u201cYes\u201d\u2014\u201cHe\u2019d said, \u2018Yes\u2019; we said, \u2018Yes.\u2019\u201d We went to court; he was our son. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThings got a lot worse because he was going into middle school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So he\u2019s at the beginning of adolescence, where children are starting to ask the question: \u201cWho am I?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cWhat am I good at?\u201d \u201cWhat am I valued for?\u201d Here\u2019s a son, with a lot of scarring in his past\/a lot of rejection in his past\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014and this is one of those times when\u2014I\u2019ve just talked with enough parents of adopted kids\u2014in the onset of adolescence, as they move through adolescence\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u2014it\u2019s the hardest time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014that\u2019s the time when they\u2019re starting to figure out, \u201cDo I even belong here at all?\u201d How did Josh start to act out as a middle schooler?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy: <\/strong>Well, first of all, he\u2019s two years older than all these sixth graders. They were small; he was big. He acted out at school; he became a bully. He got kicked off the bus, because he was always stirring things up. Teachers couldn\u2019t teach with him in the room because of his ADD. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, the principal said, \u201cOne more incident and he\u2019s out of here.\u201d We\u2019re thinking, \u201cLord, what do we do?\u201d We had tried counseling; we\u2019d tried programs that the school recommended\/that we found; and nothing was making a difference. So God led us to a local Christian residential program that we put him in. He agreed to it; he was there for a year-and-a-half.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> How old was he at this point?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> He was 14. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay, so he\u2019s in the treatment program for a year-and-a-half. You guys are praying for him. Did you feel like: \u201cMaybe we found a turning point here\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> We did; sort of. It was\u2014treatment wouldn\u2019t be the right word\u2014it\u2019s not a formal treatment. It is a Christian rehab kind of thing, and we had to go through it too\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Oh, wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u2014which was good and not always easy. We had to go to counseling there; we had to be there. At first, we couldn\u2019t be there; but then we had to. It was a couple\u2014well, several really wonderful things happened there. One, we were forced to connect with him; he, therefore, was forced to connect with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> What did that look like? In what ways were you connecting?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> We\u2014twice a week, we had to be there; and we had to spend time with him. We talked, and we got to know him; and that was a great thing. Because we had to be with him, the girls did, too; so they developed relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Good things that happened included that he got his mind <em>filled<\/em> with the Word of God. He still knows lots of Scripture as a result of that. While he was there, he met Jesus. His house parents led him to Christ and baptized him, and they are still important in his life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe learned how to work the program and graduated\u2014that\u2019s what they all do, you know\u2014they learn how to work the program. They do what they\u2019re expected so they can move forward and get out. He did that well. Some of that was manipulative; some of that was genuine\u2014that he really was growing; and he\u2019d learned a lot, and he was feeling loved. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s what happened to me. All this time, up until when he came to Christ, we were doing the right thing\/the good thing. God sent him to us; we\u2019re being good parents to him; we\u2019re showing love to him. But there was no emotion; it was growing some. The night that he came to Christ, and they called me and told me, God called on me to just pray, and pray, and pray, and resist the devil on his behalf. He said, \u201cOkay; now, loving him and praying for him is your assignment for the future.\u201d So that\u2019s what I did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You know, I remember being on a seminary campus and meeting a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener\u2014this was a number of years ago. This listener had heard us talk about adoption on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. We\u2019ve always been very pro-adoption: encouraging parents to pray about it, to consider it, to be open to this. This is a part of God\u2019s design for the orphan\u2014that we would rescue orphans; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This guy came up to me and he said, \u201cYou guys need to be telling the whole story.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Because he said, \u201cIt\u2019s easy for us to get into a romanticized vision of: \u2018We\u2019re going to go rescue somebody, and they\u2019re going to be eternally grateful for our love and our grace,\u2019\u201d\u2014and this was an adoptive dad\u2014and he said, \u201cThis is the hardest thing we\u2019ve ever done as parents.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy: <\/strong>Absolutely. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So over the years, we\u2019ve tried to say to moms and dads: \u201cLook, this is a noble calling, and it\u2019s something you need to make sure God\u2019s calling you to. Don\u2019t go into it with a sense of: \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going to be wonderful.\u2019 Go into it with a sense of: \u2018God has made it clear this is what we need to do<em>.<\/em>\u2019 Then know, in the process, that whatever\u2019s going on with your adopted son or daughter\u2014they\u2019re in a better place than they would have been if you hadn\u2019t entered their life.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo even as you see and go, \u201cThis isn\u2019t turning out the way I want it to turn out,\u201d just know it\u2019s turning out better than it would have been if you weren\u2019t a part of this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> \u2014especially for the adopted child.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes, exactly; well, mostly for the adopted child; that child would be in a world of hurt if you hadn\u2019t stepped in. You may be looking, going, \u201cThis isn\u2019t going well.\u201d For them, it\u2019s much better than it would have been otherwise. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI say all of that\u2014and Judy, your story and your book, <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em>\u2014is an attempt to say, \u201cThis is a good and godly calling;but it\u2019s when you go into, eyes wide open\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Eyes wide open, on your knees.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cand knowing you\u2019re called by God to do it,\u201d so that, when you face the obstacles\/the kind of obstacles that you\u2019ve described today, you go: \u201cI\u2019m here because God called me to. Even if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, He is with me; and His rod and His staff will comfort me in the midst of the anguish that I\u2019m dealing with.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And what a picture. As I\u2019m listening to you, Judy, I\u2019m thinking\/here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking, \u201cThis is what God feels\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cabout us. We\u2019re\/we\u2019re Josh.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Judy:<\/strong> Oh absolutely; we are <em>all<\/em> prodigals.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And your love for him is just the same as God\u2019s love for us. Can you imagine what God thinks of all the crazy decisions we make and, yet, He never stops\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014loving us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I would encourage moms and dads, who are thinking about this\u2014or who have brought a son or a daughter into their home, either through adoption, or maybe you\u2019ve got a natural-born son or daughter, who has wandered off\u2014Judy\u2019s book is designed to walk with you through 90 days of this journey with thoughts for you to reflect on: the Scriptures; prayers you can pray. It\u2019s a 90-day devotional for parents who are in the wilderness. It\u2019s called <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can order a copy of the book from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call to order at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com. You can call to order Judy Douglass\u2019s book, <em>When You Love a Prodigal<\/em>; our number is 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201dF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know every time that we touch on this subject, we are going near where a lot of people are in significant pain. One of the things we want to do, here at FamilyLife, is to be here for you when you face the kinds of challenges that all of us face in our marriages and in our families. Those challenges that come from bad choices that people make or from circumstances that we never expected: \u201cWhat does the Bible say about those things?\u201d \u201cHow do we walk through those in a way that brings honor to God and that keeps us close to Him?\u201d That\u2019s what <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is all about\u2014providing you with practical biblical help and hope for your marriage and your family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI mention that because we are two weeks away, now, from the start of a new year. This is an important season for us, here at FamilyLife. The next two weeks will determine, in large part, what the following 12 months look like, whether <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is able to continue with the ministry that we have, and even expand into the future, or whether we have to pull back. A lot of that depends on whether listeners, in the next two weeks, are able to help with a donation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe good news is we have friends of the ministry, who have stepped forward and said they will match every donation we receive this month, dollar for dollar. The amount of that matching gift has just, in recent days, been increased. It\u2019s now a $3 million matching-gift fund. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe want to be able to take full advantage of that matching gift, which means we need <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners to be as generous as you can be in making a yearend donation. If God has used the ministry of FamilyLife in your life\/you want to see it continue in the year ahead for you, and for your friends, and neighbors, make as generous a yearend contribution as you can so that we can continue this work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com and donate online. Or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to donate. If you donation is $50 or more, we\u2019d love to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d by sending you a new devotional for couples called <em>The Story of Us<\/em>. Please pray for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> as we approach yearend. Pray that we\u2019d be able to take full advantage of this, now, $3 million matching-gift fund. Will you do that for us?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe hope you can be back with us, again, tomorrow. We\u2019re going to continue to talk with Judy Douglass about her experience as a mom of a young man, who walked away from her, and from his family, and from God. We\u2019ll continue that conversation tomorrow. I hope you can be here for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\"><u>donating today<\/u><\/a> to help defray the costs?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2019 FamilyLife. 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