What you will find out in this book that you are getting, is that it doesn't matter how he is going to react. You trust the Lord and you react the way that the Lord would.
You treat them with unconditional love just like the Lord treats us. You also know that the Lord holds us accountable for what we do, but in a gentle way. You also know that the Lord allows us to go and learn our own lessons when he tries to tell us and we don't listen.
You have to remember that he has not total awakened to anything yet, and yes he feels that you are the only one that he has hurt. He hasn't gotten the full picture yet of what he has done. He maybe starting to see some of it and that is why he has run.
Also according to the man who wrote the book on Prodigal's Do Come Home, is that his pigpen hasn't gotten dirty enough. Once it gets so nasty that he can't stand it, that is when he is going to start looking at himself.
He can not fully look at himself right now because it would destroy him. That is the last thing that you want to have happen to him no matter what you feel about what he has done.
Also, to be honest with you, unless someone has worn your shoes, they do not understand what it does to the person. No, their families will not understand what has been done to you and your son unless the same thing has happened to them. They do not know you and therefore, they do not have feelings for what you are going through.
Have you ever read a story about someone and felt a twinge of what they were going through, but when it is someone that you know or yourself, you do not get the full impact of what they have been through or suffered. Also, you can put the person out of your mind that you do not know. The person that you know is not so easily put out of your head. There is an attachment there that you do not have with a stranger.
The thing of it is, is that the Lord wants us to be able to feel that about every person that is on this earth. So that we can understand what people are going through and better pray for them.
There is so much that you are learning about on your journey and there is still so much more to learn. Compassion is hard to have for someone that has hurt so badly, but you are learning it.
