by Patrick James Miller
As For Me And My House
About the Book
Most families do not fall apart in one dramatic explosion.
They drift. One missed dinner at a time. One conversation that never happened. One season of busyness that quietly becomes a way of life. Until the house gets quiet and nobody knows exactly when the closeness leaves, or how to get it back.
Patrick James Miller has driven hundreds of people through Wilmington, North Carolina, in his car service. What he witnessed from the front seat changed him. Good people, hardworking, loving, well-meaning people, ending up alone in their final years. Not because their families were cruel. Because the connection was never built deep enough to hold. Miss Roberta had a pension, a home, and a little dog named Roscoe. She lost everything, not because she ran out of money, but because nobody was close enough to notice things were slipping.
This book is the answer to what he saw.
Making God the Center of Family Again is a call to every parent, adult child, and grandparent who has ever felt the drift happening and wanted something to change. It is for the father who shows up physically but checks out emotionally. The adult daughter who keeps meaning to call her aging mother more. The grandfather who feels like a holiday decoration in his own family. The grandmother who has wisdom nobody is asking for. The young couple building a home and wondering why it does not feel like enough.
Grounded in Scripture and anchored in real life, this book gives you:
The seeds to plant when your children are young, so they never want to leave.
The tools to rebuild a table that has gone thin across the generations.
The declaration to make before the distance becomes permanent.
The biblical blueprint God put in place before the first family ever sat down to dinner.
The honest conversation about boundaries, broken family lines, and what honor actually requires.
Sow the seeds of love so deep into your children that they would never in a million years ship you off to an old age home just because it would be convenient for them.
Reader Reviews
“"I built a business. I provided for my family. I showed up to the big things. I told myself that was enough. I am seventy-one years old, and I have four grandchildren who call me by my first name because they do not know me well enough to call me anything else. This book does not yell at you. It just tells you the truth. I started reading the Bible for the first time in my life six weeks ago. I am starting late. This book told me that starting late is not the same as not starting."”
“"My sister gave me this book and told me to read Chapter 9 first. I did. I read the rest of it the same night. I was waiting for my father to go first. I stopped waiting. I drove four hours to see him last weekend. We sat at his kitchen table for three hours. Best conversation we have ever had.”
