Angel,

I'm sorry your son has been so deceitful.  It's hard not to blame yourself 
as a parent, but it's not your fault.  Remember your son is sixteen and has 
chosen to behave this way himself.  I pray God turns him around.



JulieMelton
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>From: Angel <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: I request your prayers
>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 03:45:19 -0500
>
>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.