All right Kathy.  Good news.  Well Father in Heaven thank you for all that you are doing in Chris's life.  We ask that you continue to watch over him and intervene with other Christians to keep him out of trouble.  I know sometimes kids look for trouble but just keep those detours up.  Thank you also Lord for being with Kathy and Gregg.  In your precious name I pray Amen

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Christ is either Lord of all or he is not Lord at all.
Karen Carter '74



> Hi Guys,
>         Well, yesterday was Wednesday and I thought that I'd give you an update
> on
> Chris.  He had been planning on getting high yesterday after his visit to
> the probation officer. You will recall that I was praying that he would get
> busted.  It looks like God had a better idea.  Leave it to a
> Prffessional.  Let me tell you.   Well, Chris went back to his old dealer
> on Tuesday and left $30 in our mailbox for the guy to pick up and deliver
> the goods.  Well, you guessed it.  The money is gone and there was nothing
> in its place.  "A fool and his money," I guess.  Chris is mad and he has no
> clue that we know so he can't talk to us about it and he just has to bottle
> it all up inside for now.  He made some threats in instant messaging about
> slashing their tires, but he's too much of a chicken to do that.  Plus, he
> is on conditional release.  Nothing like a straight ticket back to jail.
>         To get us to take him to the bank to get the money, he told us that he
> wanted to buy a school T shirt, which of course, he hasn't.  He took the
> last $20 out of his account, leaving $1.30 to his name.  He told somebody
> that he put $30 in the mailbox though and this morning I discovered $10
> missing from my purse.  That probably makes me as mad as anything!!  We've
> already told him that we are cutting off internet privileges  at the end of
> the month if he doesn't pay up his cable bill to us.  We're dropping
> cable  at the end of the month ourselves.  With this new car and paying for
> repairs on the old, we just can't afford it and dile up works fine for
> us.  He won't be able to play his games any more or I M whenever he wants
> too, but tough.  He refuses to go back to his old job because he hates the
> fact that his pay is direct deposit, but we arre more sure than ever that
> this was the right thing to do.  We may not have that luxury if he lands a
> new job and he has filled out a few applications now. He can't talk to us
> about any of this because he would have to admit to so much, but I am
> praying that he will talk to his therapist about all this tomorrow.  This
> guy is really decent.  We really like him, but we are trying to stay out of
> the picture as much as possible so that Chris and he will build the
> relationship instead of having us involved with it.
>         After Chris got ripped off last night, Greg did take him down to the
> Wednesday service at Calvary Chapel.  The pastor is a good guy.  He and
> Greg are friends, but Chris doesn't know that either.  Anyway, Chris was
> much more comfortable last night and said that he is willing to go
> back.  Go God!
> Kathy