Dear Virgie,
I agree!
Kathy


At 03:02 PM 12/25/2005, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>Praise the Lord! I am so happy your Christmas was so nice and Chris did the
>right thing and treated all of you with respect.  I know you all had to work
>on it but it is a good beginning.  You know the Lord had to soften his heart
>for everything to work so smoothly.  You and Greg do deserve some of the
>credit as well.  Jesus made the changes but you never gave up on Chris and
>you stood your ground when you thought it necessary.  Praise his holy name.
>Miracles still happen.
>Merry Christmas to all of you and may God bless you richly.  You could not
>have had a better Christmas present than having your whole family in church
>together.
>Virgie and Hoshi
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 2:43 PM
>Subject: Christmas was a success
>
>
> > Hi Everybody,
> >        Well, its Christmas afternoon.  Chris has left.  All went
> > well.  thank you for praying!!  My Christmas actually began on Friday
> > evening.  A few of us from church did Christmas caroling at our local
> > retirement, residential independent living facility. We sang and
> > handed out little books with meditations on the reason for the
> > season.  I think that everybody enjoyed it.  Some of those people
> > don't get much in the way of visitors so, at least it was something.
> >        Then, our family went caroling with another group for about another
> > hour, but this time, we were walking through a neighborhood and
> > singing outside.  We all carried homemade lanterns and sang our
> > hearts out.  It was a real, old fashioned, New England event.  We had
> > so much fun!
> >        Greg picked Chris up after work on Saturday.  Chris was very
> > pleasant.  We all worked at getting along.  He was polite and
> > everything.     We thought that Matt was going to have to work last
> > night and miss the Christmas eve service, but, as a Christmas present
> > for me, he asked for two hours off and came to the service to
> > surprise me.  I had my whole family in church last night and this
> > morning.  I truly felt so blessed.
> >        We've had our dinner now and Greg took Chris to his room to drop
> > off
> > his stuff and then took him to Nicky's.  I pray that this was a good
> > first step toward reconciliation.  Chris told me that he wished that
> > he had invited Nicky last night to the christmas eve service  after
> > all.  We had encouraged him to do so, but, oh well.  Maybe next
> > year!  He also told me, before he left, that he liked being in
> > church.  He had been nervice about that, I know, but the people
> > welcomed him well.  I'd like to believe that, in some way, he really meant
> > it.
> >        For our Christmas eve service we do the triditional lessons and
> > carols of Christmas.  It's probably the one time of the year that we
> > get a little high church like, but it is so moving.  We had a lot of
> > visitors from the community last night and Greg gave a pretty strong
> > invitation  at the end.  Who knows what seeds were planted.
> >        Well, enough of my babbling.  Oops, sorry Brad!  I know, that's
> > supposed to be your trade mark.  I'm just bubbling over with joy and
> > relief, I guess and I wanted to share with my prayer warriors as soon
> > as possible.  Thank you so much for adding to my successful
> > Christmas.  Now I can relax and look forward to a few days of just
> > taking it easy.  Thank you Lord!
> > Merry Christmas everyone!
> > Kathy