Hi Kathy,
My thoughts and prayers are with you.  I will keep praying!
Huggs and blessings!
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: the latest from Maine


> Phil,
> That's what I keep telling myself, but it is hard not to worry.  I'm 
> afraid, for a first born, he doesn't have a very long line of successes to 
> look back on at present.  He's been fired three times, all for the same 
> reason, working too slow.  flunking out at college was a real blow to him 
> and still having to pay back $15,000 for the experience didn't help. I 
> know that he felt bad about totaling our car this spring and he was 
> looking forward to new beginnings out in Michigan.  I would just like to 
> know, one way or another, something.  Thank you for understanding, and, 
> you're right, Greg and I have been kicking ourselves over and over for 
> anything that pops up in our memory banks.  I wish that we were dealing 
> with the church, or the family.  Two fronts at once is hard.  I can say, 
> however, I really have a sense of peace through it all.  Worrying won't 
> help and getting angry won't hurt anybody but me.  Rhonda is right. 
> Praying is the right response.  God can do the worrying.  After all, I 
> know that He knows and He loves my kids even more than I do.  Nothing will 
> happen without His knowing.  I just long for the day when He lets me in on 
> things.
> Kathy
>
>
> At 10:51 AM 7/11/2006, you wrote:
>>Kathy,
>>
>>Not hearing from your own children is, to say the least, stressful.  It 
>>taps
>>into all that fear that we never seemed to know was there.  It is a 
>>perfect
>>breeding ground for the enemy to plant lies into our thinking or, if some
>>are already there, to try and reinforce the lies we believe by putting 
>>more
>>lies on top of them.  Then there are the feelings that come along with it.
>>I remember when Gretchen was 15 and gone for three months.  I'm sure Matt 
>>is
>>just sorting things out in his mind right now.
>>
>>Phil.
>