Mary E. DeMuth

Especially if the goal is to get closer to Him, right? Or to be obedient to Him, 'cause in a lot of these cases, it's like, you know, gals are like, "I know He's asking me to put this down," right? He's not then mad at you if you don't get it right, like, on the first go around, second go around, or tenth go around because I promise you, 'cause I've seen it with my eyeballs, He is teaching you so many other things.

Mary DeMuth, who was, is my literary agent, who was on the podcast recently, was talking about, you know, sometimes we're like, "Okay, God, we're supposed to be focusing right now on this one thing," whatever it is.

Like, "God, make me more, like, patient," or, "Make me more this," or, "Make me more that." This is the thing we're supposed to be working on.

When, in reality, he's like, "Well, I really wanna work with you actually on being kinder, or being compassionate, or being still, or all of these other things." And so I also think that when you're so focused on a day count or failing at a fast, again, you close yourself off to all these other things that God potentially has for you.

Your children know that you love them." And I burst into tears because it was this heavy burden I had been carrying all my life.

Mary DeMuth is here to discuss a really big, uh, topic of concern for so many parents today, and that is wayward adult children.

We're gonna offer you help and hope today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and thanks for joining us.

John, many people may not know, but we have a, a counseling team here, about 20 counselors, and they manage about 2,000 calls a month for people who need some help, and they will engage you, and that's available to you because donors have made it possible for that.

Our guest today is gonna give you some insights and talk us through managing that relationship for a good outcome.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, Mary DeMuth is a podcaster on The Pray Every Day Show.

She's an author of dozens and dozens of books, and she's a speaker, and, uh, one of the books she's written that we're gonna cover today is called Love, Pray, Listen: Parenting Your Wayward Adult Kids With Joy.