Hey Phil,
Would you consider making her take a drug test to prove that she is
clean and sober?  If she isn't using, she shouldn't mind.  I'd think
that she'd want to prove herself.
Kathy

At 12:00 AM 12/12/2005, you wrote:
>She came home from the grocery store with her 10 year old son so I did get
>to talk with her tonight.
>
>She claims she has done no drugs since we last talked as a group to her.  I
>told her I found that very difficult to believe.  I covered all the things I
>had written down and she admitted to some of them.  She was adamant,
>however, about not doing the drugs.  She also began explaining why she was
>behaving the way she was and a very wounded and hurt and defeated person
>began talking and crying.  So, I did a little pastoring and preaching.
>Everything but the offering.  I explained many things to her that were the
>cause of her pain and woundedness.  She began listening.  I talked a lot
>about accountability and the importance of that type of relationship to
>maintain a walk with the Lord.  I told her, as I did this morning in church,
>that I would be teaching on this beginning after the first of next year.
>She immediately, before leaving to go to bed, asked to start praying again.
>So, that is where we begin; next Tuesday evening.  That is where we all
>start.  thank you for praying.
>
>Phil.
>
>
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