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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