Father God please give Will and Judy wisdom to know how best to approach this situation. We pray for Erica, may you open her eyes to see you and her heart and mind to accept you. Please be at work in her life bringing her closer to you. We pray for Jade, please be protecting her through all of this. Bless this family Lord. We pray for peace and reconciliation and that you would fill each heart with love for the others. In Jesus’ name Amen

Praying for your entire family. May God put in your daighter’s heart so much love and protection for Jade she will make the right choice not to try and pull her from you and your wife but rather embrace the help and love you are offerr her. I pray that your wife and you will continue to ask God for guidance in the best interest of your granddaughter and your daughter. I’m sure this is the lastest poor choice of a long list of trouble your daughter has been for a long time. Fighting for custody may look like what’s in the best interest of Jade and it may really be right this moment in time. I’m sure you’ve considered the possibility of not winning custody as well. The hurt, anger, and disappointment your daughter would then have may lead her down a far more destructive path. It could also rip both of them out of your lives indefinitely. I pray that if there is any way to help your daughter, (I’m sure you be tried for years), that God would show it to you. I pray as you are working through all this that there’s not a physical altercation when your daughter does come for Jade, as you know she will. If not today it will be another. Personally I am having trouble with my teenage daughter and my elderly mother has said many hurtful things about my life choices, parenting, and even my daughter. I tell you it’s one of the worst feelings knowing that your own mother doesn’t think you are a good, wonderful, competent parent. Those words I’ve heard don’t go away it feels like even a heavier burden on my heart. I pray that if there is a thread of hope that your daughter will accept help and know that you only want the best for Jade. That what you think is best for now is not to hurt her or that you don’t believe she is not ever capable of becoming a wonderful mother. I’m praying for this.