Where do I begin with reviewing this book? I felt like the author looked inside my heart and wrote my own feelings. This is an account of what she and her husband experienced while raising their troubled daughter. It is a book to reach out to any parents who have raised (or are in the process of raising) a child who has abused drugs, harmed themselves, or experienced mental illness.
The author, Dena Yohe, is the wife of a pastor and missionary. She and her husband went through some real battles with their child, Rene, who has pretty much experienced everything that is a parent's worst nightmare. Mrs. Yohe shares her pain and heartache as well as Biblical advice on what helped her make it though. There are also a few excepts written by her daughter which gives a perspective from the troubled child's point of view.
Fortunately, God turned ashes in beauty in her and her daughter's life and used them to help start a ministry to troubled youth called To Write Love on Her Arms.
I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is having a difficult time with a child.
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