Oh, Matt, Matt, MATT. Please prayers for Matt. He is going through a time where he feels absolutely hopeless. The despair is palpable. He's obsessing on everything wrong, and all of the obstacles seem to him too hard to overcome. He's angry at the world and I don't know what he's capable of. He peeled out in his car and said he's going to run it into a telephone pole. I've seen him like this before but he hasn't been this way for at least 6 months. His son, Matthew Jr. needs him to be a good Dad and stable. The rest of our close knit family need him too. He's worried he can't fulfill the obligations to the court for fines or do the requirements to get a driver's license again. I'm scared for his mental health. He's rejecting family and talking to bad people on the phone that are tempting him to do things he shouldn't. They have illicit drug use and are constantly doing criminal activity. He's always stayed true, honest, and kind. Please please pray hard for him. His mood is scaring me. As much as I want to be loving and forgiving, I want these people who are influencing him to feel this way be taken far out of our lives. Problem is that one of them is an ex-daughter-in law of mine to one of our other sons. For her to go back to jail (she has warrants) would be so heartbreaking for her 8 year old son, who we love so dearly. So much cognitive dissonance in my head, having a big family, our five children and their extended members. Ross is a mess. A nephew of mine. Severe drug addiction. Homeless. Court case he didn't appear for so warrants now. Matt is taking sympathy and taking him food wherever he hides daily. But I know Ross has offered Matt drugs and he might have actually relapsed. He was doing so good. I don't know what to do. Please, our Blessed and Holy Mother Mary, our advocate filled with so much grace and love, have mercy on us hopeless sinners and ask Your Son, our Lord Jesus to intercede on our behalf in these seemingly impossible situations. Please, help Matt feel hopeful and give guidance, St. Joseph, on how to move forward over these hurdles as a father and family man. Please all saints and angels answer my call and help my son, the most troubled of all of my children.