Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Here's the podcast from Middays with Susie Larson.

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Well, it's only just a matter around. Welcome to Middays, I'm Susie Larson. So honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspires you in your faith walk that deepens your understanding of God's word and that heightens your

awareness of God's very real presence in your life. Well, my guest today writes this. Loving a prodigal

isn't easy, whether it's your own child, a sibling, a grandchild, a niece, or nephew, a friend, spouse,

or even a parent. When someone you love veers off a safe path and makes destructive life decisions,

you grow concerned.

You seek to encourage them to make better choices, to point out the risks and dangers and coax them back from harm's way.

And when those prodigal choices continue over years, well, you, the one who loves the prodigal, grow desperate thinking, nothing's making a difference.

And your fear escalates and faith dwindles and hope wanes.

What can you do?

My guest today is Judy Douglas, and she joins me to talk about her book, When You Love a Prodigal, 90 Days of Grace for the Wilderness.

We've got six copies to give away.

And a quick announcement before we hear from Judy, because we are really committed on the midday show of giving away resources every single day, we're so grateful to the publishers of our guests who are willing to give us these stacks of books to get into your hands for free. We cannot possibly keep up with the administration of that behind the scenes. And so we've got this

auto process. And it requires a little bit extra work on your part. And I'm so sorry for that,

but it's the only way we can do it and keep up with it. And we really are convicted about

getting these books into as many hands as possible. So here's the deal. You text the word book,

not in quotations, not with an exclamation point. It's auto response.

So you put book in the text line.

You'll get an auto response that allows you to enter the drawing.

And it just takes a minute or two.

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