Will pray, Kerri.  I have to admit it gets me wondering sometimes about the
folks the LORD allows to have children with all the folks who would have a
loving home for children and don't have any.

Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "kerri" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: PRAISE ABOUT MP AND CHILD CUSTODY


> Hello Paul, a story like this is so tragic but I'm glad the boy has an
> oportunity to stay in a stable home. Our neighbor downstairs is in a
similar
> situation. She's 32 and a non stop drunkard, living with some drugged up
> alcoholic of a boy friend. The child, who is 5 has to see her mother
> constantly either drunk, stoned or sick. pray for this family too. Kerri.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Ferguson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:58 PM
> Subject: Re: PRAISE ABOUT MP AND CHILD CUSTODY
>
>
> > 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