Kathy,

I was praying.  Glad to hear all went well.  I know God is speaking to
Chris; Chris just has to choose to listen.

JulieMelton
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www.heart-and-music.com
Keep smiling!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 12:43 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
>