A e Vinny.
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From: "Vinny Samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:54 PM
Subject: Fw: I request your prayers
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> From: "Vinny Samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "The Electronic Church" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: I request your prayers
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>> Angel,
>> Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I have just read this.
>> I'll be praying. Remember, our God is the God of the impossible. This is
>> not the time for you to be pondering the cause of your son's
>> mis-behavior, ratherit is the time to continually call on the Lord, throw
>> yourself upon his mercy until he brings the solution.
>> The enemy of our soul would have you in doubt and condemnation, but
>> the Lord tells us to give thanks in all things. Obviously this doesn'
>> make sense to the natural mind. The scripture that comes to mind is the
>> following from Philippians 3-13 through 16.
>> Brethren, I count not myself to have aprehended; but this one thing I
>> do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto
>> those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of
>> the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be
>> perfect be thus minded; and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God
>> shall reveal even this unto you.
>> Vinny
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Angel" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 1:45 AM
>> Subject: I request your prayers
>>
>>
>> I would like to ask your prayers. My son is 16 years old. He no longer
>> wants to go to mass, and he hangs around with the wrong crowd. I had to
>> appear with him Monday before a court officer because he was caught
>> smoking, he is under age, and with a counterfeit controlled substance.
>> He had to produce his report card from school. I didn't receive his last
>> report card due to a mix up. I asked the secretary for another. She
>> sent it home. It was the best report card he ever had. I promised him
>> money if he brought his grades up, formerly they were pretty bad. I was
>> so proud. We presented it to the court officer and he was amazed as he
>> didn't see good cards often. I was going to tell the officer how bad he
>> had been, but, with that good card I thought perhaps he was turning
>> himself around and there was no real need to do this. The same day his
>> teacher phoned and said he was performing badly and he was in danger of
>> failing. I couldn't understand this given his good report card. I even
>> thought he might have counterfeited it. I couldn't figure how this could
>> be done as he didn't know the address of the school or the proper
>> spelling of the teacher or the principal's names. I went to school today
>> to determine why they both were saying he wasn't doing well. The upshot
>> was: He used my scanner to copy and change his grades. I was so
>> disappointed, and felt so foolish. Here I was trying to defend a boy who
>> was so obviously a fraud. He lies so much I can't really trust anything
>> he says, but as St. Paul says "love believes all things" I guess. It is
>> just that I know his potential and I know if he really tried he could do
>> as well as his phony grades indicated. Just last week he stopped seeing
>> a few of his bad friends and I thought he was turning himself around but,
>> he still insists his report card was the one given him by the school, and
>> the confusion was the fault of the schools. I keep thinking I must have
>> failed somewhere. People keep telling me I haven't and his bad behavior
>> isn't somehow my fault, but, I still think if I somehow did something
>> differently he would improve. If you ask him he will blame me for all he
>> does. He uses me as an excuse. I even do that. I really need prayers.
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