Christopher is a 35 year old man who comes to our Friday and Sunday
meetings. I have prayed with him once. He is a former addict but he has
done time in the passed for drugs. He is on probation. Today he had a
court hearing when he learned, because he had not been compliant, that is,
he had not attended all his drug and alcohol classes, that they were sending
him back for another six months in prison. Fortunately, it isn't the big
house, that is, the Colorado state pen but it will be a minimum security
facility. He will be allow to go off campus to work and it is more like
apartment living, or dormitory, than in the penitentiary. Gretchen went to
see him tonight because he will spend a few days in a local county jail
before being transferred. He told Gretchen to tell all of us at church that
he was sorry he let us all down. I'm going to try and see him Saturday.
Anyhow, Christopher is trying to go straight but he has lived half his life
on and off drugs. He is a good guy and I personally don't think he meant
for this to happen, but, when the judge tells you, and your parole officer
tells you, here are your classes and you must attend, and you don't get to
them all, the courts get tired of seeing you and screwing around with your
excuses. So, when you think of him, pray for him because he is getting way
too old to keep this up. We will be able to spend time on the phone with
him, too, when he is transferred to the minimum security facility. He will
now spend Christmas, New Years, and his 36th birthday in jail. Like I said
once before, I never thought I would be pastoring junkies but there are four
of them in our group. One is my friend Keith and he has been clean for over
25 years and he was never arrested but he committed a lot of crime before he
got saved. Troy, whom you've heard me talk about, hasn't been coming to our
meetings for several months but we see him from time to time. He is back to
drinking and drugging so he feels ashamed to come and meet with us but we
keep trying to work on him because he did 8 years of hard time for beating
people up years ago and if he is not careful, he'll end up in the slammer
again so pray for Troy, too.
Phil.
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