My brother, Zach

Abba, I want to lift my brother up in prayer. I pray that he will come to know You and get his life back on the right path. I pray that you will keep him protected from harm and that You will give Mom some guidance on what to do with him.

Well, he just wrecked his car...hadn't even had it 3 weeks. Said it happened because he was malnourished because Mom doesn't buy the food he likes. Yet, the amzing thing is that he's always eating...they have to hide some things in the house if they want any or he'll eat it all up...he's got a room full of dirty dishes. Mom is pissed and doesn't know what to do with him anymore. He hid it from her for 2 days before he finally came in at 3 am Sunday morning and told her what he did. He had asked her for his GED money that Dad sent and she told him 3 times that it was strictly for his GED and because she had seen that he had the paperwork for it all filled out, she trusted him...nope he spent all that money in less than 24 hours. I think he was drinking and driving, but there's no way to know for sure. He told Mom he was on the backroads driving alone and side swiped a tree while he was trying to learn how to drive his car. Yeah, likely story, when he just drove it all the way to Kansas without telling her where he was going and he was by himself. She told him that he was going to get a job before the end of January and he was going to start paying her room and board and if he wasn't willing to do that, he could find somewhere else to live and by the summer she wanted him in his own place. He threatened suicide if she made him do that and she told him that she'd get the cops involved if she had to and he told her that he's just make the cops take him out as he wasn't going anywhere with them willingly. He also told her that he hates his family and wants nothing to do with them. At this point, I'm tempted to not even give him his Christmas presents. I don't want to reward him for his lack of respect for others. I told Mom I think she needs to drug test him. Something is going on with him. He's even being a butt to his friends and that's totally unlike him. She tried to get him some help and they said that because he's over 18, he's got to be the one to seek help and there's nothing that she can do.