Sorry for double posting.
The computer I'm on at work didn't show that it posted at first, so I did it again. Someone can take down the other one please.

That is a wonderful prayer for our EC. Only God can change others.

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Ezekiel 11:19-20

Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Our children are in the sights of our Lord. He is not ignoring our prayers. He is just waiting for the right moment.

Do what you must in the hearts of our EC to turn them to God and back to their families. Amen!

Oh I love this!
I need to keep this out where I can see it!

'They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

God has always wanted the hearts of His people. It has never been about the Law but about God’s people’s willingness to voluntarily follow Him. God has a wonderful plan for all of our lives if we will only listen and obey. But that takes a heart softened towards God. I know there have been times in my walk where I have stubbornly done things my own way rather that submitting to the will of God. The lessons I have learned because of it really were not worth it in the end.

Although I have improved, I still struggle to obey God in acting instead of reacting especially with our son and DIL's refusal to accept responsibility for this estrangement and putting an end to it before my DH and I can no longer accept their apologies. It feels like a selfish desire to do what I want and not what God wants.

As far as my ES and DIL goes, I ask God to remove that stony part of their hearts and replace it with a soft heart that will rejoice in obeying their heavenly Father. I ask that He continues to convict my ES to the point he will step up to the plate and do what God wants instead of what DIL wants for our relationship. I can see the softening of his heart from our last conversation with him, but our DIL evidently is just as hardened as ever. God usually works THROUGH people. I believe He would work on our DIL through our son but what my son really needs most now is COURAGE to do the right thing and

"...keep on pursuing those things that bring peace and that lead to building up one another." Romans 14:19

I join you in that prayer GuelsMom. Your ES needs the courage to step up as the head of the home as you said. All of our married sons Biblically need to. No DIL should keep her husband from a relationship with his parents. I have to wonder if God may use someone else to speak to your DIL's heart?

i love this too...especially after finding out deceased dil's mother...is still ranting and raving and keeping the bashing against me going....she won't let it end...and is trying her darndest to turn everyone against me. when will it let up?

sawy448 This is my question for all of these people who refuse to let go of past misunderstandings and offences. In my case it doesn't appear to be ranting and raving, just an insistence on keeping me dead and gone. It's almost like the whole bunch of them made a covenant to shun me and to keep me out of their clique. If ever you watch the movie "Becket" there is an excommunication scene in which the Church terminates King Henry II. It's quite dramatic and final. Christian people do this to each other all the time and continue to maintain that they are following God's will.