Thanks so much. See what you are going to cause me to do and that is to cry.
When I have more time I will fill you in on the update.  I really think God
is causing me to understand  what he is doing for me and I am not angry with
him any longer because I have seen some positive results.
----- Original Message -----
From: Vinny Samarco <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: Moving day is coming


> Dear Angel,
> Our church prayed for you this morning, and wil continue to do son.
> Love in Christ,
> Vinny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Moving day is coming
>
>
> >I understand how you feel as my son who is 15 is headed down the same
path
> > as is your son.  As you know my husband has Alzheimer's and I have none
to
> > share this burden with.  My son is hanging around this 18 year old who
> > takes
> > drugs and he had been stealing from me in the past and last week stole
his
> > computer.  He was supposed to return it Monday but he didn't.  I shall
> > have
> > to call the police today to try to get it and to perhaps teach him a
> > lesson.
> > I am so hurt.  He talks so mean to mea and calls his father retarded.
> > Last
> > week he left while he was supposed to be watching his father when I was
at
> > work.  His father decided he wanted a table in his room.  He took an old
> > expensive table from my living room upstairs and brook it's legs and
> > glass.
> > I think my son stole my cell phone and I locked myself out of my house
> > while
> > I was trying to retrieve the dogs and couldn't even call for help.  I am
> > so
> > frustrated.  I use to really think God cared but now I think I am just a
> > form of entertainment for him.  Sort of like a situation comedy for him.
> > Let's see how
> > Angel get's herself and her family out of this one.  I mean.  How can a
> > loving God take a 54 year old man and deprive him of his mind.  It
doesn't
> > much matter if one is physically debilitated there is always hope for
the
> > person but what does one do without one's mind?  I would ask again for
> > your
> > prayers because I know of nothing else to do.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:55 PM
> > Subject: Moving day is coming
> >
> >
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>         Well, Chris turns 18 next Tuesday.  Where is he moving?  We
don't
> >> know.  His girl friend's, father's, offer must have ben made while
> >> the man was, "in his cups," so to speak, because it hasn't been made
> >> again.  That would be a relief except that they did find someone who
> >> Chris could move in with.  This was a guy on government assistance
> >> who was going to make Chris chip in on expenses that he himself
> >> doesn't pay.  It's not the first time that I've breathed a prayer of
> >> thanks that Chris was on probation.  Chris has to receive his
> >> probation officers blessing before he can make good on any of his
> >> crazy schemes.   This time, it only took one call for the officer to
> >> learn that Chris was planning on moving in with a sex offender with a
> >> police record and a history of drug abuse.  Nice friends Nicki's
> >> parents have!  "NOT!"    AT least this time, it wasn't us who had to
> >> say "NO!"  It was the officer.  Yea!
> >>         Tomorrow, Chris is going to throw himself on the mercy of the
> >> city
> >> to see what they may hafve to offer.  To her credit, the probation
> >> officer has not tried to talk us in to backing down and keeping
> >> Chris.  Chris wants his freedom.  He thinks that once he moves out
> >> and gets rid of us all of is problems will be over.  He has no
> >> money.  He owes us, but can't pay us because the girl friend's
> >> parents keep borrowing and not paying back.  This weekend, his wallet
> >> turned up missing.  Chris  suspects Nicki's younger brother, why not,
> >> the older one has already served two years in juvanile detention, but
> >> he can't prove it.  Foolishly, what money Chris still had, he refused
> >> to put in the bank, enjoying the convenience  of having it with him
> >> when he needs cigarettes or condums, so we have no idea how much he
lost.
> >>         I don't feel bad about letting Chris go.   I know that God is
> > going
> >> with him and that is such a great comfort.  Strangely, however, I
> >> know that I will miss him.  Every day lately I've gone down into his
> >> room to straighten it, make his bed and wash his clothes.  I do this
> >> for two reasons.  One is to keep out the smell.  Chris doesn't bathe
> >> regularly, he smokes and he comes home smelling like McDonalds after
> >> having worked there.  The combination can be overpowering, but if I
> >> were to insist that he clean everything, it would just be another
> >> battle that I couldn't really win, so I deal with my anger by keeping
> >> things clean.  The other reason, however, is that doing this is the
> >> only way that I can love Chris right now, in secret, where he can't
> >> stop me.  I take the time while making his bed and folding his
> >> clothes to pray hard for him.  It's the only expression of love that
> >> I am allowed right now and so I take it.  In five days, it will be
> >> all over.    I am at peace with that.  Sometimes, it hurts when I
> >> here the other children express their desire that he leave sooner
> >> than later, but I can't blame them.  I had just always wanted a close
> >> knit, Walton type family I guess, but the reality is that I don't
> >> have that.  I do have three great kids who do enjoy our togetherness,
> >> however, and I know that some parents don't even have that, so I
> >> still have a lot to be thankful for.
> >>         Please keep Chris in your prayers.  He is off track now, but I
> > still
> >> know, with certainty, that his dross will be consumed and his gold
> >> will be refined.  I still believe in him even though it looks
> >> hopeless right now.  I keep saying, "where there is life there is
> >> hope."  He was dedicated to the Lord at three months.  I've always
> >> seen my kids as, on loan from God.  Well, next week, I completely
> >> surrender him back to the father.  "Go with him, Lorrd.  I"m so glad
> >> to know that he will never be out of your sight.  Amen."
> >> Kathy