Hi Angel,
Thanks, please do let us know how things are going for you when you can.
I will continue to pray for you and your family.
Huggs,
Virgie and Hoshi
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: Moving day is coming
> Thank you all. I really do appreciate you all, and your prayers. I will
> try to let you know what happens.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: VIRGIE UNDERWOOD <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Moving day is coming
>
>
>> Hi Angel,
>> I will pray for you. It is a heavy burden to bear but know in your heart
>> that the Lord walks with you.
>> I wish I had words to comfor you but only the Lord can comfort and heal
> us.
>> Huggs and blessings.
>> Virgie Underwood
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: Moving day is coming
>>
>>
>> >I understand how you feel as my son who is 15 is headed down the same
> path
>> > as is your son. As you know my husband has Alzheimer's and I have none
> to
>> > share this burden with. My son is hanging around this 18 year old who
>> > takes
>> > drugs and he had been stealing from me in the past and last week stole
> his
>> > computer. He was supposed to return it Monday but he didn't. I shall
>> > have
>> > to call the police today to try to get it and to perhaps teach him a
>> > lesson.
>> > I am so hurt. He talks so mean to mea and calls his father retarded.
>> > Last
>> > week he left while he was supposed to be watching his father when I was
> at
>> > work. His father decided he wanted a table in his room. He took an
>> > old
>> > expensive table from my living room upstairs and brook it's legs and
>> > glass.
>> > I think my son stole my cell phone and I locked myself out of my house
>> > while
>> > I was trying to retrieve the dogs and couldn't even call for help. I
>> > am
>> > so
>> > frustrated. I use to really think God cared but now I think I am just
>> > a
>> > form of entertainment for him. Sort of like a situation comedy for
>> > him.
>> > Let's see how
>> > Angel get's herself and her family out of this one. I mean. How can a
>> > loving God take a 54 year old man and deprive him of his mind. It
> doesn't
>> > much matter if one is physically debilitated there is always hope for
> the
>> > person but what does one do without one's mind? I would ask again for
>> > your
>> > prayers because I know of nothing else to do.
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:55 PM
>> > Subject: Moving day is coming
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi Guys,
>> >> Well, Chris turns 18 next Tuesday. Where is he moving? We
> don't
>> >> know. His girl friend's, father's, offer must have ben made while
>> >> the man was, "in his cups," so to speak, because it hasn't been made
>> >> again. That would be a relief except that they did find someone who
>> >> Chris could move in with. This was a guy on government assistance
>> >> who was going to make Chris chip in on expenses that he himself
>> >> doesn't pay. It's not the first time that I've breathed a prayer of
>> >> thanks that Chris was on probation. Chris has to receive his
>> >> probation officers blessing before he can make good on any of his
>> >> crazy schemes. This time, it only took one call for the officer to
>> >> learn that Chris was planning on moving in with a sex offender with a
>> >> police record and a history of drug abuse. Nice friends Nicki's
>> >> parents have! "NOT!" AT least this time, it wasn't us who had to
>> >> say "NO!" It was the officer. Yea!
>> >> Tomorrow, Chris is going to throw himself on the mercy of the
>> >> city
>> >> to see what they may hafve to offer. To her credit, the probation
>> >> officer has not tried to talk us in to backing down and keeping
>> >> Chris. Chris wants his freedom. He thinks that once he moves out
>> >> and gets rid of us all of is problems will be over. He has no
>> >> money. He owes us, but can't pay us because the girl friend's
>> >> parents keep borrowing and not paying back. This weekend, his wallet
>> >> turned up missing. Chris suspects Nicki's younger brother, why not,
>> >> the older one has already served two years in juvanile detention, but
>> >> he can't prove it. Foolishly, what money Chris still had, he refused
>> >> to put in the bank, enjoying the convenience of having it with him
>> >> when he needs cigarettes or condums, so we have no idea how much he
> lost.
>> >> I don't feel bad about letting Chris go. I know that God is
>> > going
>> >> with him and that is such a great comfort. Strangely, however, I
>> >> know that I will miss him. Every day lately I've gone down into his
>> >> room to straighten it, make his bed and wash his clothes. I do this
>> >> for two reasons. One is to keep out the smell. Chris doesn't bathe
>> >> regularly, he smokes and he comes home smelling like McDonalds after
>> >> having worked there. The combination can be overpowering, but if I
>> >> were to insist that he clean everything, it would just be another
>> >> battle that I couldn't really win, so I deal with my anger by keeping
>> >> things clean. The other reason, however, is that doing this is the
>> >> only way that I can love Chris right now, in secret, where he can't
>> >> stop me. I take the time while making his bed and folding his
>> >> clothes to pray hard for him. It's the only expression of love that
>> >> I am allowed right now and so I take it. In five days, it will be
>> >> all over. I am at peace with that. Sometimes, it hurts when I
>> >> here the other children express their desire that he leave sooner
>> >> than later, but I can't blame them. I had just always wanted a close
>> >> knit, Walton type family I guess, but the reality is that I don't
>> >> have that. I do have three great kids who do enjoy our togetherness,
>> >> however, and I know that some parents don't even have that, so I
>> >> still have a lot to be thankful for.
>> >> Please keep Chris in your prayers. He is off track now, but I
>> > still
>> >> know, with certainty, that his dross will be consumed and his gold
>> >> will be refined. I still believe in him even though it looks
>> >> hopeless right now. I keep saying, "where there is life there is
>> >> hope." He was dedicated to the Lord at three months. I've always
>> >> seen my kids as, on loan from God. Well, next week, I completely
>> >> surrender him back to the father. "Go with him, Lorrd. I"m so glad
>> >> to know that he will never be out of your sight. Amen."
>> >> Kathy
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