Paul,

That's so sad when parents are so messed up on drugs. Do they deserve to
have their children when they are that way? I'll pray for the little boy
that he gets to spend more time with your MP friend, and that he gets total
custity of the child.

Praying for you all.

Please pray that Vernon gets back soon. It's five PM and he's not back yet.

Love,
Pat Ferguson

At 03:29 PM 12/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey, Family
>
>An update and praise about the MP and child custody.  To catch you up, my
>buddy the MP who helped me so much when I was sick has been in Korea for
>half a year.  Just before he left he started raising his 3-year-old nephew
>because the unwed mother is a druggie and transient.  Just after he left the
>boy's mother fought the custody and is trying to get the boy back full time.
>The MP came back this week and they went to court for custody.
>
>The mother hasn't improved her lifestyle but wants the boy fulltime but the
>judge said no, she can have him for visitation but he will remain with my
>friend the MP and his wife and children in a stable homelife he has come to
>know.  The mother wanted him for Christmas but the judge determined he
>should spend Christmas with his new family and she will have him a few days
>later.  Her father (my buddy's brother) is also a homosexual who is HIV
>positive and on probation for bringing drugs across the border.  That (the
>boy's grandfather) is the person the mother brings the boy to spend time
>with, and lets the boy drink from the grandfather's cup and eat from his
>plate.  (She did the same thing when she was sick with the flu with her own
>cups and dishes.)  She has another child, a daughter, who is being raised by
>her mother, so that child (a girl) thinks her grandmother is her mother.
>
>Anyway, bottom line in all this mess is that the boy will remain most of the
>time, including Christmas, with my friend and his family and the messed up
>mother will only have visitation for several days at a time.  The boy
>doesn't even want that.  He wants to wake up with his new Daddy and Mommy in
>the morning, not with the misfit mother.  So pray he will be able to deal
>with this trauma.
>
>Paul