Oh Phil,
No!  Your message breaks my heart.  You and Sandy have been through
so much already.  I was rejoicing that the light at the end of your
tunnel had finally come.  In other words, your story gave me hope.  I
am truly sorry to hear  of this set back.  May God still gain the
victory for His glory in this situation!
Kathy



At 11:42 PM 9/6/2005, you wrote:
>For many months now, Gretchen has been drifting away from the Lord and her
>family.  By the way, I removed her from the list before writing this
>message.  I don't think she was reading the echurch mail anyhow.  Gretchen
>is back to lying all the time, associating with people with whom she
>shouldn't, smoking, she has been caught more than once, and we don't know if
>she has done any drugs but we have strong suspicions that she has been drunk
>when we were on our vacation and I would bet money that, at the very least,
>she has smoked some dope.  She is never where she claims she is when away
>from home either.  My son's drapery shop was doing extremely well when they
>hired Gretchen.  They were scheduled 6 to 8 weeks out.  Now, they have lost
>a lot of money and the business has steadily declined.  Now, they are lucky
>if they have one week of work in advance and last week, they were down to
>just two days of week.  They have gone without paychecks a couple of times
>recently in order to pay bills and taxes.  The business has had to borrow
>money to stay open.  Some of you already think I'm a screw ball so you won't
>mind what I am about to say.  I have told my son that I personally believe
>the lack in business has direct relationship to Gretchen's employment since
>it is a family owned business.  Additionally, I have known for several
>weeks, that spiritual fiddling with relationships within my own family
>realm, has been occurring, and even to the degree it has touched at least
>one of the people with whom I pray on a regular bases.  So, I am being
>pressed, due to circumstances that are effecting my family, to make another
>decision that isn't going to be easy to make.  I'd appreciate your prayers
>because this involves two little boys who never did anything to deserve what
>they have had to face in their little lives.  By the way, I left out a whole
>ton of things that have been going on so what you just read is only the tip
>of the iceberg.
>
>Phil.