Hi Guys,
Well, after giving a pretty good report of how things went Friday,
it would seem that, possibily, the roller coaster is going
again. Last night, we were awakened in the middle of the night by a
phone call from the girl friend of Chris's roommate. Her name is
Sam. She was really upset. Evidently, Chris packed up and moved out
yesterday and moved to a friend's house and in the process of moving,
took her computer. Then, she said that she got the computer back,
but the hard drive was missing. Then she called back to say that
Chris had come back in the middle of the night and punched her boy
friend in the face. We don't know what to think. We have no way of
getting hold of Chris. We have no clue how this girl got our phone
number. We don't know who is telling the truth. Chris had told us
on Friday that she was calling around, spreading a lot of lies about
him stealing, but she claimed last night that she wasn't the one who
was doing it and that the actual culprit is the guy that Chris moved
in with. I have a feeling that everybody is lying and we hadn't
planned on getting into the middle of any of this, but, here we
are. This girl, Sam, claims to have gotten the police involved and
if Chris is guilty of assault and battery, as an adult, he may have
just kissed is plans for the military goodbye. She also let us
know that Chris was indeed fired from his job on Saturday, but if
that is because of the lies she told, or the truth that Chris really
was stealing, we just don't know.
I don't know what to think. The phone call was jarring, to be
awakened from a deep sleep, to say the least. We got up and locked
our doors and just prayed. I just pray that, somehow, the truth will
get sifted out of all the mess and that the right people are
punished. If that's Chris, then, I'm sorry, but we won't rescue him
from his own foolishness. That's a hard thing to say as a parent,
but in Proverbs it says, "Discipline your son, for in that there is
hope; do not be a willing party to his death. A hot tempered man
must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do it
again." Proverbs 19:18-19 The best thing that Chris could do is
turn to Jesus.
Kathy
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