When things appear to go wrong in your life, it's time to start praising God! It is very plain to me now that God was in control of the seemingly disastrous events in our children's lives.
I'd tried to bring our children up to believe in Jesus Christ as their saviour, but our church background was such that I'd never realised that mere assent isn't enough! However, in the autumn of 1995 we started going to a Grace Baptist church, where we began to receive thorough, Reformed, biblical teaching.
Our daughter Amber became a Christian at a house party about ten years ago when she was 17, but at art college she started to backslide and in her last year, living away from home, she began to drink. After leaving college she lived at home but life was a bit of a roller-coaster ride. Quite often she did not come home at night, and there were one or two real scares, such as a phone call from a hospital early one morning - she hadn't known how she got there. She was binge drinking - and you don't know what you are doing when you are very, very drunk.
