Answer's aren't simplistic, nor are they easy to digest, but one answer comes through loud and clear. If your child is a Christian, then he is God's, not yours. God has bought him with a price. Quit being his babysitter. I had been pretending to myself that my son had gone on a long trip and that he would be returning soon.
Praise is the active key to that door of surrender which leads to healing.
Involvement in a praise-centred church or prayer group helps parents focus outside of themselves. But he and his sister have been Christians for four years and had been praying diligently for the salvation of my husband and me. It wasn't until we underwent this ordeal that I accepted Christ as Saviour through a relative of mine. But our family has changed and is really growing. I find it easy sometimes to dwell on the mistakes of the past or get trapped in emotional obstacles of the present.