Phil,

I'm sad to hear that Gretchen is drifting away from God.   I'll pray for
her, for you in your decision, and, of course for little Everette and
Taylor.

JulieMelton
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www.heart-and-music.com
Keep smiling!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 9:42 PM
Subject: Update on Gretchen


> 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.
>