Books with author Pat Stephens

Jack’s story is told many times in many families across the U.S. Jack is a goodkid with dreams and family. He is better off than most yet looks for something inwell known and traveled places. Why does he look where others warn of disaster?What is it that pulls Jack and so many others to try the forbidden apple of drugs?No sane person wakes up healthy and well with an attraction to addiction. But likeso many times before the laughing, smiling, waving of unconditional acceptancefull of happy times and back-slapping friends calls Jack to travel along. Wheredoes he go? How long does he stay? What does it cost him? Do others follow withthe same sense of control? Jack’s journey reveals the very sober reality that noone makes choices that only effect themselves. Others pay enormous cost whonever experience the euphoria. They are the other side of the story. They followoutside the cloud of addiction in the grinding agony of cold, sharp, unforgivingreality. They pick up the pieces and clean the mess left behind in every dip in theroad. No one thinks of them. But they stay and take the punishment that poursout into their lives because of the only thing that really matters in a family andin the world. The idea that someone would take the pain and yearn for the returnof those lost on that road even at the expense of sacrificing themselves to savethem. Jack found two people who were willing to pay the ultimate price for hisredemption. One was his mother and the other was Jesus. Jack found them both.Jack’s life changed because of the love that makes all things new. Join him andhis mother in Jack’s story.