Chris, guys and girls sleeping in the same room?  Not good.

earlier, Chris L Gilland, wrote:
>I need to start again, by saying that if there were any part that I'd want
>more input on, it would be this second one...
>
>Everything was going fine, until Friday right before lights out for the
>youth.  it wasn't really a bad thing, as much as it scared me a teeny bit...
>Basicly, one of the youth, named jenny (age 12) apparently told all of us
>that she suffered from severe azma.  On top of that, she had caught a
>massive cold from her older brother before coming...  not there was anything
>really wrong with that fer say:  it was just, well, for 1, she certainly was
>conjested, no question about it...  Well, have you ever had one of these
>insodents, where you go somewhere with a group of people, not even church
>related necessarily, but you really feel God leading you to everyone, yes,
>but especially, him leading you to one particular individual of the group to
>take care of, watch out for, and to not only pray for, but also to talk to,
>witness to, etc?  Well this is exactly what happened with jenny and
>myself...  I don't think until there at the very end of today, however that
>she got the full jidst of how deeply I love and care about her...
>literally, granted, I've never once had kids, however I've been round kids
>of all ages from infantsts, all the way up to highschoolers, so I do know
>enough to know, that I truely love her as if she were my own...  I'd give my
>world for her...  heaven forbid!  I did! give my world for her the whole
>weekend...  When I found that she and all the young middle schoolers were
>all sleeping in the den on sleeping bags, in the same room, obviously, I
>also was offered to sleep up there with them, if I so chose...  Granted I
>was beyond mortifyingly embarrassed because, well?  OK, mainly:  Like I just
>said:  jenny's only 12, now, she's sleeping, in the same room, with the
>other middle school guys, plus, myself, should I accept...  OK, folks, what
>in the blankity blank is wrong with this lovely picture here... Not?
>Certainly not lovely...  Or... so I thought...  and before you all who know
>about my situation, don't freak out, as it wasn't a bad thing in the long
>run, but don't jump ahead of me here.
>
>
>To make a long story short, I finally did accept.  I didn't do so though
>because of cercomstances...  I did it mainly because of the situation with
>jenny as it was.  I couldn't stand to see her alone of there with them and
>no adult supervising.  That in itself was enough to scare the heeby jeevies
>outta me...  Believe me:  it gets worse, so let me continue...  Well, the
>first night being Friday, obviously, went pretty well...  The only thing was
>that Collin, who was the youngest boy there at age 10 was cutting up very
>badly, in a good way, but still enough to where it wasn't appropriate...
>Basicly, he purposely was doing his best to trip over jenny purposely.
>Well, that really got me extremely irked...  Finally I sat up and I let them
>have it...  Because of me gbeing one of the shapherones, I had this
>responsibility...  I felt really weird doing what I'm fixing to tell ya,  as
>I've never once had to disapline a child, but I had to do it...  I told him,
>OK Collin, that does it... keep in mind:  I'd already told him numerous
>times to stop...  I told him that A... him doing that and then when I asked
>what the thudding noise was not telling me was very very very very dangerous
>in itself, let's forget tripping purposely in the dark over anotyher person,
>(especially of the oppisit gender.)  i still don't know what his motive was
>of what he thought he was doing...  I told him thus, that because of not
>telling me with my visual problems, I had no way of knowing if someone fell
>and was hurt, or if they were playing, or what...  Well, when i told him
>that, and he still ignored my very harsh warning, I finally went over, and
>grabgbed him by the arm, (not hard) yes hard enough to hurt very badly, I'll
>admit it, and yes, he did yelp)  I told him, with my hand cupped under his
>chin so that he was forced to look me in the eye:  Collin, I have had it...
>tomorrow, Lin (who is our pastor)  is going to be told about this.  A corse
>he begged me not to, that he'd be good...  I told him, Collin?  Honey?  You
>should a thought about that before you did this, shouldn't you.  he was
>silent...  i then said, almost these precise words:  Collin?  Young man?  I
>am talking to you mister...  You've already in major trouble, I'd suggest
>that you answer me and not make this worse than it already is...  You should
>hafve thought first.  Right?  he then very quietly said, yes.  I tol,.d him
>then, excuse me?  he said for what?  I then said, I am adult:  you are
>child...  You do not tell me yes when i am talking to you...  Do you
>understand me?  I think then he caught the idea, and said, yes, sir...  Then
>I said and, as a bonis, because of your misconduct, you are going to keep
>lyour mouth zipped, and sit here on the couch beside me until there is not a
>sol except us in this room awake...  Do i make myself clear?  he told me
>again:  yes sir...  I then finnished by leading him to the couch, and told
>him, I mean it boy... you make one word unless it's an emergency, and you
>will suffer very severe concequences...  He then asked, not that I will
>disobey you, Chris, but if I do, what will happen?  i told him, Collin, if
>you're not gonna disobey me, then is there any reason for you to know?  He
>said no...  I was very tempted to then say, no what, but I figured I'd given
>him enough grief already for one evening, I mean, I had to give at least
>some merrit to the fact that's only 10 for crying outloud.
>
>i didn't hear a word the rest of the evening...  it wasn't until the next
>night, being last night that things got so outta whack that I totally lost
>it completely and literally went insane...  i think all along Jenny knew I
>was very upset, although she probably had no clue why...  As many times as I
>asked her though quote:  are you OK?  i'm surprised that she didn't get
>irritated by me continuously asking.  i could tell that she could totally
>understand my concern for her, and I can't tell you all nor her, how much I
>appreciate that...  lin did the most stupid thing though last night, and
>even though that was a Christian invironment I did say something to him that
>I now regret wording as I did...  Please don't ban me as this is not all
>that profane, yeah, not appropriate, but not really profane for my
>opinion...  I am only and again say:  only quoting here:  I should explain
>what happened first, but i'll get this outta the way:  I told him, lin, i'm
>horribly quote:  pissed off at you tonight, bigtime!  livid doesn't come
>close to cutting it...
>
>
>That's not a word, especially to a pastor, I'd normally use in regular
>cerstances, but Vickey, before you react to me saying it on here, I like to
>at least explain in part 3, what caused me to say it, and get so furious.
>
>With that said, here comes part3.
>
>
>Chris.

John

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