"When You Love a Prodigal: 90 Days of Grace for the Wilderness"--a collection of 90 essays--90 days of perspective on what God offers to you as you love your prodigal

When You Love a Prodigal: 90 Days of Grace for the Wilderness

Loving a prodigal is a long and desperate journey, filled with fear, worry, anger, self-recrimination. You wait for the phone call--will it be from jail or the hospital? You plead with your loved one. You search for help. You feel the shame. You cry out to God, "How long, Lord?"

Author Judy Douglass knows these lovers of prodigals well. She is one herself and has created a large and growing community with others. When You Love a Prodigal is a collection of 90 essays--90 days of perspective on what God offers to you as you love your prodigal. At the end of each brief essay, response questions will help you process how God intends to use the wilderness journey to mold your spiritual life. You can work through it day by day, or you can read it straight through.

Judy has traveled this road with her own prodigal--reading, learning, praying, and seeking God. Over and over he continued to give her wisdom, he sustained her, he covered her with grace, and he filled her with hope. May you, too, be strengthened and filled with hope as together you discover how God will take you through your own valley.

"Judy Douglass has written a beautiful, profound, and personal exploration of the power of truly accepting love. It will move every reader, because each of us must be loved as a prodigal if we are to be loved at all."--JOHN & NANCY ORTBERG
 

MY REVIEW: A prodigal is defined as one who "wastes his means"; "a spendthrift"; "a repentant wastrel who is welcomed back warmly on his homecoming"; "a person who returns after a willful absence". Most of us have known a prodigal--either in our own life, or in the lives of others around us. Author Judy Douglass has written "When You Love a Prodigal: 90 Days of Grace for the Wilderness"--a collection of 90 reflective essays which include response questions to help you think through the meaning and application of each essay. The timeless themes explored here are "Love", "Grace", "Time", "Rest", "Trust", "Prayer", "Promise", "Hope", "Spirit", and "Gift". The author shares her personal prodigal story, and as this book says: "The prodigal journey is all of our journeys". 

Book Copy Gratis Bethany House Books



Judy Douglass

 

A few random realities from author Judy Douglass:

I love Jesus, my family, Texas, words, books, horses, Mexican food–and quite a few other things

I am married to a wonderful man and have three delightful children and nine superb grandchildren. My friends so fill my cup that I am drinking from the saucer.

I am a writer, speaker, missionary. Most of all I am an encourager–urging everyone I encounter to know God and to entrust their lives to him for all He wants them to be and all He has prepared for them to do. I get to go all over the world to do this loving and encouraging–what an incredible “job.”

I’ve written a few books, edited a couple of magazines, helped found Synergy Women’s Network and served on the Synergy Board and the Redbud Writers Guild Board. My earliest books are on Goodreads under Judy Downs Douglass.

I am amazingly blessed, totally inadequate, woefully unworthy and eternally grateful for the grace and mercy of God.

https://www.judydouglass.com/