My Son: An Addict--Finding Hope for Him and Peace for Me

When does helping turn into enabling? When does partnering with God turn into "playing God?" When does true love become tough love? Janet Barnes faced these questions and more when she discovered her son, a star-basketball player, was using and dealing drugs. Reasoning, lecturing, shaming and punishing produced no results. Leaders at her church couldn't or wouldn't help. Janet's marriage was suffering. So was her mental and physical health. She writes, "I decided to talk to a long-time friend from church who seemed very spiritually minded. I had no idea that I was on the verge of making the greatest discovery of my life and embarking on an amazing spiritual journey."