Vergie,
I see the good as well. I constantly pray that God will consume the
dross, but refine the gold in his life. He has so much to offer to the Lord.
Mama Kathy
At 05:30 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>Oh what a tangled web he is weaving. You know the Lord can still pull off a
>miracle and all it takes is for Chris to ask for His help. I am praying for
>all of you. Chris has made some mistakes but he is a confused young man and
>I believe there is good in him. Hang in there and don't give up on him.
>I am sorry for all the hurt all of you are feeling.
>Virgie and Hoshi ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:09 PM
>Subject: we've heard from Chris
>
>
> > Hi Guys,
> > Chris called last Thursday evening. We must have talked for more
> > than a half an hour. He admitted, to me, that he is not very happy,
> > but I think that he still feels that he has to find a way to save
> > face or something. He admitted that he knows that he should move
> > back home and try to pull his act together and go back to church, but
> > he just doesn't want to face that. He's living with a highschool
> > drop out right now; a friend of Nicki's older brother.
> > He still works, when he feels like it, at the tela--marketing
> > job. He has discovered, however that you can not show up for work
> > for weeks and still have the job if you want it. I guess that they
> > are desperate for workers. I asked him how he was paying his share
> > of the rent if he wasn't working steady. He told me he was working
> > on it. That gives me chills. He told me that his supervisor was
> > arrested, on the job, for doing cocaine in the bathroom. He really
> > knows how to pick em, the circumstances, that is.
> > The thing that concerns me the most is that Nicki's parents enticed
> > Chris into taking out a cell phone plan for all of them, in his name.
> > Evidently, they can't get a land line or a cell phone plan in their
> > own name because their credit is so bad. He thinks that its okay
> > because they told him that they will pay his part of the bill and if
> > they don't he can just have their phones shut off. However, they
> > have the trump card because, if he does that, they may be pretty mean
> > to Nicki. He told us that they are already mean to her when he
> > doesn't give them money. Can you believe this? I couldn't write a
> > fiction story this stupid. He said that when Nicki's father got his
> > pay check last Friday, the first place they went was to the
> > cacino. Yes folks, they do it all in that family, drink, smoke and
> > gamble.
> > He told me that he tried to break up with Nicki a few weeks ago
> > because he is board with the relationship, but that he went back
> > because she got really depressed. Brother. Now that he's in even
> > thicker with them over this cell phone deal he's going to be dealing
> > with them for at least two more years, unless the whole mess goes
> > belly up, which will probably happen and in doing so will really mess
> > up any hope that Chris had for establishing a credit rating. I think
> > that he's regreting the cell phone thing already. He doesn't like
> > where he is living and he let me say some pretty hard things to him
> > last Thursday without snapping back. He wants to get his deploma
> > because he wants to go into the military, but he hates going to
> > classes. He's still failing everything. He wants things, but he
> > still isn't overriding his impulses enough to go about life the right way.
> > He wants to see Caleb in his first wrestling match this
> > weekend. We invited him to stay the night and ride to the meet with
> > Greg and Caleb. If he takes us up on the offer, maybe we'll have
> > more time to talk. One never knows, however.
> > That's the latest from :Maine! As always, thanks so much for praying!
> > Kathy
> >
> > P.S.
> > Caleb has been sleeping most of the day so I believe that the worst
> > is over for him. I just pray that nobody else gets it.
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