OH PHil,
I am so sorry.  I bet that sometimes you must wonder if there is any
end in sight.  I pray that support will come for you and Sandy as
well, maybe even from some unexpected place.

Dear LOrd,
Provide Phil and Sandy with some incredible surprise of Your love.
In Your holy and precious name, Amen.

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or
imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be
glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
(from Phil and Sandy on down), for ever and ever, Amen!
Ephesians 3:20



At 11:48 AM 12/6/2005, you wrote:
>This isn't a plea for money so don't take this wrongly.
>
>Recently, we have reason to believe, that Gretchen is using drugs again.
>Perhaps not on a daily bases but just occasionally, for her, is way too much
>under the circumstances.  She was very depressed when Christopher was
>remanded to another six months in jail due to his lack of compliance.  Last
>Friday night, she paid us 200 dollars which she owed for rent and other
>things we pay for her.  Sandy left her purse sitting on the kitchen counter
>over night.  The next morning, 100 dollars was missing.  That next morning,
>Gretchen got up and was happy and cheery, something highly unusual for her
>in the morning, and the next morning, Sunday, I was out in my office about 6
>in the morning and Gretchen came upstairs and left the house.  I called her
>two hours later to see where she was and she claimed she was cleaning the
>shop where she works with our son.  I asked her why she was doing it at 6 in
>the morning and she said, Because I couldn't sleep.  Crystal meth keeps you
>awake, sometimes for days, depending upon how much, and how often, you use
>it.  Then, after a couple of days, you crash and sleep and sleep and sleep
>and sleep.  Last night, Gretchen crashed and slept all, or most of, the
>evening.  The Lord has replaced the missing 100 dollars already but it is
>Gretchen we are greatly concerned about.  I am also greatly concerned at her
>co-dependency of Christopher.  Everyone involved with Gretchen senses
>something is wrong again right now so we likely will be sitting her down for
>another little talk.
>
>Phil.
>
>
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