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When parents find faith later in life and adult children resist

My wife and I found faith late in life but our adult children think we've joined a cult and family dinners have become tense negotiations around what we can and can't talk about. We love them desperately but feel like we're living in two different worlds now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The sacred arrival in one life creates exile from another, and love must learn to cross the distance between worlds.

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