Hurting for My Child

In my earlier post from today, I alluded to things that had happened over the last week that were challenging, to say the least!

The picture of my daughter in her prom just is beautiful. On her sweet face I see such hope and expectation. When this picture was taken, however, her boyfriend was already nearly an hour late picking her up. All day long there had been some major drama lurking around. He hadn't slept for several days due to drinking a large quantity of energy drinks. There was some other "substances" that came into play as well......not giving all the details to protect privacy. Her boyfriend fell asleep at his home a few hours before he was supposed to pick up my daughter. His mother couldn't get him up, so she let him sleep. My daughter decided to take matters into her own hands and drove to his house. She woke him up and they left for the prom shortly after that. Since my daughter had been so upset and worried all day about him, she wanted to leave the prom early as she was exhausted. Things were fine until they were about halfway home. Her boyfriend began talking crazy, driving like a maniac, and making rants about spiritual warfare. They eventually made it to our house. Since dd had left our van at his house, dh drove the boyfriend home. The rantings continued all the way to his parents' house. I was home with our daughter who was nearly hysterical. There's a lot more than I am telling here. Please keep this young man in prayer.

One of my sons' friend's mom found something "untoward" in her home earlier in the week after my son and another boy visited several days ago. Of course I confronted my son and I want to believe the best about him but not be stupid or in denial. How I wish these things would not touch my children!

It hurts when my children are hurt or do wrong, even if in my daughter's case she did nothing wrong. I'm crying as I write this because it hurts so much! I want to go back to ten years ago when we made a trip to the local Christian bookstore in their pajamas to pick up the latest Veggie Tales video and watch it before going to bed! That is not going to happen, so I better buck up and become the mother God intended me to me. Jesus' own mother had her heart pierced many times, likewise the rest of us moms will face this,too!