Estranged Adult Kids

 

        

        There are so many reasons why our adult kids walk away from their family. Every situation is different.  In my experience with other moms who have shared with  me their story, many times it's because they walked away from their faith in God and didn't want to hear about it or be around it anymore.  Another reason is they were neglected or abused by someone early on as a child by someone other than their parents. That experience, you may not have even heard or known about because they didn't share it with you.  So, the enemy steps in when they go to expensive therapy sessions.  The therapist will ask about their childhood and it always will come back to us as parents.  The therapist does not encourage conversation with parents or healing of the relationship. They just focus on the pain that most times is not derived from the parents but they will believe that it's best to stay away from us. Now we become the enemy to our own adult kids. 

The irony of it all is our adult kids will eventually have kids and make mistakes too because that is life. Most of us do our best to raise our kids but we will all make mistakes, including our kids who want to stay away from us for our mistakes. 

The truth of the matter is, the enemy is deceitful and wants to destroy family relationships by indoctrinating people through the education system, through social media and other places over time to believe that family is not important.  That God is Not real. You don't need to get married. You can get rid of a baby in your womb if you don't want it.  Marriage means nothing.  Stay away from the moms and dads who raised you and you don't need to honor them because they must have looked at you the wrong way or punished you for skipping school one day. That we can be our own God.  

That is why I believe that we need to come together as Moms of faith to believe God for our kids.  We wrestle not against flesh and blood(people) but against spiritual wickedness in high places. This is spiritual warfare that we need to believe God to heal our adults minds and bring the Love of God back into their lives.