Angel,
I just received this, and I will be praying.
Love in Christ,
Vinny
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: Moving day is coming


>I understand how you feel as my son who is 15 is headed down the same path
> as is your son.  As you know my husband has Alzheimer's and I have none to
> share this burden with.  My son is hanging around this 18 year old who
> takes
> drugs and he had been stealing from me in the past and last week stole his
> computer.  He was supposed to return it Monday but he didn't.  I shall
> have
> to call the police today to try to get it and to perhaps teach him a
> lesson.
> I am so hurt.  He talks so mean to mea and calls his father retarded.
> Last
> week he left while he was supposed to be watching his father when I was at
> work.  His father decided he wanted a table in his room.  He took an old
> expensive table from my living room upstairs and brook it's legs and
> glass.
> I think my son stole my cell phone and I locked myself out of my house
> while
> I was trying to retrieve the dogs and couldn't even call for help.  I am
> so
> frustrated.  I use to really think God cared but now I think I am just a
> form of entertainment for him.  Sort of like a situation comedy for him.
> Let's see how
> Angel get's herself and her family out of this one.  I mean.  How can a
> loving God take a 54 year old man and deprive him of his mind.  It doesn't
> much matter if one is physically debilitated there is always hope for the
> person but what does one do without one's mind?  I would ask again for
> your
> prayers because I know of nothing else to do.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:55 PM
> Subject: Moving day is coming
>
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>         Well, Chris turns 18 next Tuesday.  Where is he moving?  We don't
>> know.  His girl friend's, father's, offer must have ben made while
>> the man was, "in his cups," so to speak, because it hasn't been made
>> again.  That would be a relief except that they did find someone who
>> Chris could move in with.  This was a guy on government assistance
>> who was going to make Chris chip in on expenses that he himself
>> doesn't pay.  It's not the first time that I've breathed a prayer of
>> thanks that Chris was on probation.  Chris has to receive his
>> probation officers blessing before he can make good on any of his
>> crazy schemes.   This time, it only took one call for the officer to
>> learn that Chris was planning on moving in with a sex offender with a
>> police record and a history of drug abuse.  Nice friends Nicki's
>> parents have!  "NOT!"    AT least this time, it wasn't us who had to
>> say "NO!"  It was the officer.  Yea!
>>         Tomorrow, Chris is going to throw himself on the mercy of the
>> city
>> to see what they may hafve to offer.  To her credit, the probation
>> officer has not tried to talk us in to backing down and keeping
>> Chris.  Chris wants his freedom.  He thinks that once he moves out
>> and gets rid of us all of is problems will be over.  He has no
>> money.  He owes us, but can't pay us because the girl friend's
>> parents keep borrowing and not paying back.  This weekend, his wallet
>> turned up missing.  Chris  suspects Nicki's younger brother, why not,
>> the older one has already served two years in juvanile detention, but
>> he can't prove it.  Foolishly, what money Chris still had, he refused
>> to put in the bank, enjoying the convenience  of having it with him
>> when he needs cigarettes or condums, so we have no idea how much he lost.
>>         I don't feel bad about letting Chris go.   I know that God is
> going
>> with him and that is such a great comfort.  Strangely, however, I
>> know that I will miss him.  Every day lately I've gone down into his
>> room to straighten it, make his bed and wash his clothes.  I do this
>> for two reasons.  One is to keep out the smell.  Chris doesn't bathe
>> regularly, he smokes and he comes home smelling like McDonalds after
>> having worked there.  The combination can be overpowering, but if I
>> were to insist that he clean everything, it would just be another
>> battle that I couldn't really win, so I deal with my anger by keeping
>> things clean.  The other reason, however, is that doing this is the
>> only way that I can love Chris right now, in secret, where he can't
>> stop me.  I take the time while making his bed and folding his
>> clothes to pray hard for him.  It's the only expression of love that
>> I am allowed right now and so I take it.  In five days, it will be
>> all over.    I am at peace with that.  Sometimes, it hurts when I
>> here the other children express their desire that he leave sooner
>> than later, but I can't blame them.  I had just always wanted a close
>> knit, Walton type family I guess, but the reality is that I don't
>> have that.  I do have three great kids who do enjoy our togetherness,
>> however, and I know that some parents don't even have that, so I
>> still have a lot to be thankful for.
>>         Please keep Chris in your prayers.  He is off track now, but I
> still
>> know, with certainty, that his dross will be consumed and his gold
>> will be refined.  I still believe in him even though it looks
>> hopeless right now.  I keep saying, "where there is life there is
>> hope."  He was dedicated to the Lord at three months.  I've always
>> seen my kids as, on loan from God.  Well, next week, I completely
>> surrender him back to the father.  "Go with him, Lorrd.  I"m so glad
>> to know that he will never be out of your sight.  Amen."
>> Kathy