I spoke yesterday to a relative I haven't talked to in a long time (we live many, many miles apart). I asked how she was and she told me--for a 1/2 hour--about the struggles they were experiencing with their oldest son, a high school senior. She thought he had a relationship with Christ but has basically turned around and run the other way, preferring a sinful relationship with an extremely toxic girlfriend to living a righteous life.
The once-good relationship with her son is very broken, trust is gone as he's lied again and again, he's failing classes (and has been a straight A, Honors level kid up to this point), and is spending far too much time with this girl who basically is sucking the life out of him.
So, I guess my prayer request for her is that her son would see the hurt he's causing to his own life, his relationship with Christ, and his relationship with his parents, and find a way to break free from this girl. He's broken up with her a couple of times but always gets sucked right back in.
For her, please pray that she can be built up spiritually and give it over to God, and that her husband can be totally on board with her concerns as the whole issue is causing some problems in their relationship as well. Pray God would give them peace and help her to be able to be healthy. She's lost far too much weight and is concerned about it. To top all this off, she lost a beloved sister in the last year to a car accident, so she's still in mourning about that as well.
Thanks