Love out of Control: Meditations for Parents of Adult Children

As any parent will note, raising a child doesn’t come with an instruction manual. The illusion is that after the hard work of guiding the first eighteen years of your child’s life, you’ll box up all concern and hand it off to the next batch of new parents. Your child, you believe, will have entered a successful, carefree adulthood, and you can kiss worry goodbye.

That’s rarely reality. What’s more, you realize there’s no instruction manual for transforming into the parent of a grown child ...