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<blockquote data-quote="Ironbutterfly" data-source="post: 722791" data-attributes="member: 19951"><p>Copa, I'm so sorry and have no words of wisdom but I applaud you for finding 4 things to be self assured about. I read the Glass Castle, if you get a chance, read this book. YOU have done the best you can. It is up to your son to find his way. When he calls, tell him you love him and you have confidence that he will figure things out.</p><p></p><p>My son was offered nice places to stay even a small job. He turned it down. He instead chose to live among the homeless people, couch surf, hang out at corners in all kinds of weather. He had a nice place to stay at his aunt's. He stayed a few days, then took off again. This is his life. A Pastor who once was a drug addict and homeless in his youth told me "the street life is addicting and it's very hard to break, harder then heroin". He explained it's because they find acceptance among the "discarded people in society". They aren't judged, looked down upon by their own group of people.</p><p></p><p>It's also because they feel they have no purpose...or haven't found their purpose. For a while my son preached the Bible to the homeless, the sick, the lonely and he was doing well. But then, he got mixed up in drugs and no longer cared about the Bible. Now he is jail and back to reading the Bible and wanting rehab. It's a cycle for him, for me. I think of his life as a ship that sails in rough seas and gets ship wrecked. He gets rescued somehow, gets back on a ship and sails in calm seas for a while, until the next storm, the next ship wreck, the next rescue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ironbutterfly, post: 722791, member: 19951"] Copa, I'm so sorry and have no words of wisdom but I applaud you for finding 4 things to be self assured about. I read the Glass Castle, if you get a chance, read this book. YOU have done the best you can. It is up to your son to find his way. When he calls, tell him you love him and you have confidence that he will figure things out. My son was offered nice places to stay even a small job. He turned it down. He instead chose to live among the homeless people, couch surf, hang out at corners in all kinds of weather. He had a nice place to stay at his aunt's. He stayed a few days, then took off again. This is his life. A Pastor who once was a drug addict and homeless in his youth told me "the street life is addicting and it's very hard to break, harder then heroin". He explained it's because they find acceptance among the "discarded people in society". They aren't judged, looked down upon by their own group of people. It's also because they feel they have no purpose...or haven't found their purpose. For a while my son preached the Bible to the homeless, the sick, the lonely and he was doing well. But then, he got mixed up in drugs and no longer cared about the Bible. Now he is jail and back to reading the Bible and wanting rehab. It's a cycle for him, for me. I think of his life as a ship that sails in rough seas and gets ship wrecked. He gets rescued somehow, gets back on a ship and sails in calm seas for a while, until the next storm, the next ship wreck, the next rescue. [/QUOTE]
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