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I’d like to thank everyone who replied to my post. I was trying to figure out how to reply to each of you but I’m not sure how. Maybe it’s not possible so I’m just replying to my own post. I truly appreciate your prayers for my daughter and I. I didn’t sleep well last night. I’ve been tossing and turning all morning, trying to make sense of all this. Thinking of where I went wrong. Of how this will change things. My daughter is moving out this fall and moving into dorms at her University. I’m so concerned about this now. She’ll be free to come and go as she pleases and it’ll be really hard for me to control what she does. There’s just so many things in my mind right now. I’m so sad and disappointed. I do know that God is great and He was patient with me! He knows I wasn’t a believer in my younger years and it took time for me to come around. So my prayers is that she too will come around and that The Lord will soften her heart and open her eyes to the truth. Not sure what else to do except pray like you all have suggested. I mean, I don’t know that there’s much else I can do I this point. I need to be patient. I’m a very impatient person and I don’t want that to cause me to erupt in frustration and make things worse. That won’t help. Thanks again to you all for taking the time to reply.

Hello brothers and sister. I really need your prayers and advice here. Not sure what to do. Here’s the story - I have a daughter that’s about to turn 18. She’s been going through a lot. Pressure to finish her senior year strong, being accepted to the University of her choice, she’s been struggling with an eating disorder. Juggling friendships, family, parents. It’s not easy. But she’s a good girl. She has a good heart. But at the end of the day, she’s a teenager and she’s struggling through a lot of things. Today I invited her to attend a church event and she flat out said “no”. Then later I suggested we do a Bible study at home, as a family and she pushed back on that. Said she was busy with school work and just didn’t have time. I had a funny feeling about the way she said it, so later on I talked to her about the reason she pushed back and she basically told me she doesn’t believe in God like I do. We went to church last Sunday and she said that she didn’t want to be there and when we left, she actually felt annoyed. She doesn’t feel like she needs to read the Bible “to be a good person“. She says that when she prays, she’s not really sure who she’s praying to and doesn’t feel any connection with God. This broke my heart. She made it seem as though everything she’s done in the past like getting baptized and going to church was only to appease me. It worries me. I know what it means to not have a relationship with Christ. I know what it means to reject the Lord. I told her that everything I’ve ever taught her in life, having a relationship with Jesus is by far the most important decision she could ever make. I told her that if there’s only one thing she would remember that I ever taught her Was believing in Jesus. But right now she doesn’t wanna hear it. I don’t know what to do. I’m blaming myself because, full disclosure, don’t get to church every Sunday. And it’s not like I have encouraged daily Bible reading with her either. Questioning some of her friends and some of the influence they might have on her. What’s the right way to handle this? How does God want me to handle this? Obviously, the first thing that comes to mind is praying for her. It just scares me to death that she has not put her trust in Jesus knowing that life is so fragile, especially in this crazy world. This just makes me so sad and disappointed. Any advice and prayer is greatly appreciated. Thank you