Phil, I'm praying for you and for Sandy and the loving little ones.

I pray that everything goes smoothly.

This reminds me of a situation I'll tell you all about in another message.

Praying for all of you.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson



At 07:26 PM 1/27/2006, you wrote:
>As most of you recall, I had a talk with my daughter before Christmas.  I
>told her then I was giving her to the end of December to decide how she
>wanted to live.  If she stayed in our home, she had certain rules to follow.
>She has broken all the rules we had that she agreed to about four months
>ago.  We have been getting reports from others who have seen Gretchen in
>various places and places she should not have been.  She likewise has been
>meeting up with a lot of her old drug friends.  Plus, she has been getting
>stoned and claiming, when she had to miss work the next day so she could
>sleep, that she had the stomach flue.  Anyhow, she claims she will be moving
>into an apartment within a block of our house, supposedly, next Friday.
>Sandy and I finally wondered, and we aren't the only ones who think this,
>that we might be in Gretchen's way, that is, of making a decision on her own
>which way she is going to live.  this way, she'll have to decide on her own.
>She now will have restrictions as far as seeing her children are concerned.
>By that I mean, she won't be allowed to keep either of her boys with her at
>her apartment for any reason because she already has taken them to places,
>and had them around people, with criminal records and who are druggies, and
>the Lord only knows what else they are, in the last few weeks.  Just a week
>ago, she has been over at the neighbors and they are big time dopers.
>Gretchen still smokes cigarettes and although most Christians don't think
>that's a big deal, anyone we have spoken with in drug rehab, Christian drug
>rehab I mean to say, says if they won't give up the cigarettes, they will
>almost always go back to the drugs.  My friend Keith, who builds houses, has
>found that one fact to be true based upon many years of hiring former
>druggies and x cons.  Gretchen told her brother that she used to spend 250
>dollars a month on smokes before she went into the drug rehab Christian
>home.  Anyhow, I haven't mentioned everything because, frankly, it is just
>another verse of a very old worn out song.  Remind me to tell you some day
>of the demonic activities around our home that seem to be more prevalent
>when Gretchen is around.  One more thing, I found out that Gretchen is
>telling everybody that we called her today and said she had to be out by
>tomorrow.  We told her Wednesday to be out by Friday.  Plus, I told her two
>weeks before Christmas that she had to the end of December to make up her
>mind or I would make the decision myself.  Then a week or so ago, I reminded
>her of the same thing.  Funny how we always want to blame somebody else for
>things.
>
>Phil.