Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents
Product Description
Offering hope, help, and encouragement to hurting parents of prodigal daughters, author Janet Thompson shares out of her own experience as a prodigal daughter and as the mother of a prodigal daughter. And the key to the help she offers is prayer.
While you, as a hurting mom or dad, may know that you need to pray for your daughter, this walk-along-beside-you book will take you gently by the hand and show you how. In it you will find candid stories of other parents of prodigals — and even the stories of prodigals themselves.
Don’t wait until you have a prodigal situation. Any parent will benefit from this book’s incredible insights, prayers, and stories. Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter is about hope, help, and support from others who have walked a similar road.
Chapter Topics Include
• Setting Boundaries • Surviving in Marriage • Resolving Conflict
• Making it All About Her • What Did We Do to Cause This?
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Janet Thompson has expertly pulled together a poignant but practical book that delivers what its subtitle promises: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents. Filled with real-life examples (the author’s and others’), Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter includes prayer helps and suggestions, journaling incentives, and questions or family and support group discussion. Whether your praying for a prodigal daughter–or you’re the daughter being prayed for–this is the book that walk you through to victory.
Rating: 5 / 5
Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents
When I was researching for a book manuscript on the stages of a woman’s life, I thought, Someone should write a book on prodigal daughters. As I studied those years when young women are becoming independent of their parents, I said to myself, it is not always sons who go into a far country. Well, now I am happy to say that Janet Thompson has written that book! And what a book! She has provident an abundance of help and encouragement to parents who long for their prodigals to come home.
Rating: 5 / 5
Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents
This book isn’t just for parents of prodigal daughters. Those who have prodigal sons or relatives will also benefit from reading this book. The subtitle is Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents, and Thompson delivers all three with power and a positive attitude. Every chapter opens with a personalization of Scripture and a quotation that make the reader want to keep reading. “A Praying Mother Shares” comes next. Any adult who has ever prayed for a prodigal will immediately identify with that mother’s heartache and determination not to give up. Although I must admit, I had until I read this book. Then Thompson’s daughter or another prodigal daughter shares part of her story. Sometimes I laughed, but other times I cried. “The Praying” section goes with the chapter titles of praying daily, Biblically, etc. Sometimes we get caught up in the circumstances and need reminders and further instruction about how to pray. Solid tips abound in the “Parent to Parent” section. I wanted to cut them out and place them on my refrigerator but didn’t want to ruin my book. Excerpts from the author’s “Prayer Journal” strategically come before the section, “Let’s Pray Together.” Janet’s transparency and humility make it easy for the reader to receive hope, help, and encouragement. Janet has added questions for “Family and Support Group Discussion.” How wonderful for prayer groups, Sunday school classes, or counseling groups. The last section of each chapter is “Your Prayer Journal.” I looked forward to writing my own prayers for my family. The appendix has a place for a photograph of your prodigal before the 40 days of praying Scripture for her. The blank “Prayer and Praise Journal” has blanks for the reader to write prayer requests and a praise. I highly recommend this book for parents and other relatives. This book needs to be in every church library, Christian counseling center, and in the hands of every pastor and chaplain.
Rating: 5 / 5
Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents
Janet Thompson is a gifted writer. Being open and vulnerable, she honestly shares about being both a prodigal daughter herself and the mother of her own prodigal daughter. Included are stories from other parents of prodigal daughters which Janet offers her wisdom and experience. The end result is the feeling that we are not alone, and that through prayer and God’s love and faithfulness, there is hope, and victory when our prodigal daughters return better than when they left. Every parent should read this book, because I believe there’s a little prodigal in all of us.Thank you Janet for writing a book I could not put down.
Rating: 5 / 5
Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents
This book has helped me tremendously….thanks to the writer. I was extremely pleased with the book and I will continue to advise others of it. Thanks again.
Rating: 5 / 5
Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents