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Even a perfect Father has prodigal children.
Pastor Travis sits down with his mother-in-law Marla and her two daughters — Maddie and Marissa — to walk through a story most parents pray they'll never live: two daughters raised in Christian school, in church, in the Word, who disappeared into heroin addiction after a painful divorce.
Using Luke 15 as the framework, this conversation moves through the three seasons of a prodigal: the raising, the rebellion, and the return. Marla shares the Christmas Eve phone call when a pastor told her she couldn't let her daughter come home. Maddie describes being left on the side of the road after an overdose, and the hopelessness of rehab systems that told her she'd never be free. Marissa walks through methadone clinics, jail, and the sermon that finally broke her while she was on house arrest.
Both daughters are now clean, sober, married, and serving in ministry in Maine. This is an honest conversation about tough love, empty solutions, enabling, and the redemption only Christ can write.
For any parent raising children, watching a child walk away, or waiting for a prodigal to come home.
By Travis CareyEven a perfect Father has prodigal children.
Pastor Travis sits down with his mother-in-law Marla and her two daughters — Maddie and Marissa — to walk through a story most parents pray they'll never live: two daughters raised in Christian school, in church, in the Word, who disappeared into heroin addiction after a painful divorce.
Using Luke 15 as the framework, this conversation moves through the three seasons of a prodigal: the raising, the rebellion, and the return. Marla shares the Christmas Eve phone call when a pastor told her she couldn't let her daughter come home. Maddie describes being left on the side of the road after an overdose, and the hopelessness of rehab systems that told her she'd never be free. Marissa walks through methadone clinics, jail, and the sermon that finally broke her while she was on house arrest.
Both daughters are now clean, sober, married, and serving in ministry in Maine. This is an honest conversation about tough love, empty solutions, enabling, and the redemption only Christ can write.
For any parent raising children, watching a child walk away, or waiting for a prodigal to come home.