Kathy thank God I am glad things went well for you and your son I know that
must have been one of the hardest things you did but it was something you
felt you needed to do hugs


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From: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: The light truly is best!!!


> All right Prasie the Lord.  Of course you know he is always in control.
> And God maybe showing Chris that he truly is loved.  Sometimes kids act up
> because they think they are not loved.  Just keep reminding him that you
> do these things because you know he is better than how he acts and that
> you are doing it because you love him and he may not understand it nhow
> but in later years he will look back and be thankful that it was this
> way.,
>
> --
> Christ is either Lord of all or he is not Lord at all.
> Karen Carter '74
>
>
>
>> Hi guys,
>> Thank you so much for praying.  What a wild day I have had.  This
>> morning,
>> Greg talked to Nicki's mother and told her about the scheduled
>> appointment
>> at planned parenthood.  Well, at first we thought that we weren't going
>> to
>> be found out because Nicki's mother covered for us and said that planned
>> parenthood had called to remind her of her appointment.  We were praising
>> God that we were still going to escape detection.  Then, this afternoon,
>> before dinner, we don't know why, but Chris burst into our bedroom, where
>> Greg was working on the lap top and just asked outright, how long have
>> you
>> guys been listening to our phone conversations?"  Well, we tried to talk
>> a
>> bit thehn, but Chris was very angry, understandably, so we just dropped
>> it
>> and went to dinner.  I had a feeling that I had better stay home from
>> bible
>> study to face whatever storm was brewing.  Sure enough, I caught Chris
>> snooping around in our bedrom.  I calmly sat down on the bed and Chris
>> said, "what do you think I want to talk about Mom?"  So, I laid back and
>> just told him to go for it.  He shut the door and sat down beside me on
>> the
>> bed and started asking questions about how much we knew and so on and so
>> forth.  I explained to him that we started monitering him when he started
>> sneaking around and hanging around people that we didn't know.  I was
>> also
>> able to talk to him about birth controll and going back to his original
>> policy on abstaining from sex until marriage and, over all, it went
>> pretty
>> well.  We ended on a good note.  Unfortunately, we just had another tiff
>> in
>> the kitchen because he is grounded for the day and he still wants to go
>> to
>> Nicki's so life isn't good, or perfect or, whatever, but I feel like God
>> gained another victory today in this crazy battle.  You guys needed to
>> know
>> because your prayers really helped.  Now I have to run because my five
>> minute turn on the computer is over. GRIN!   Besides, it's getting wild
>> around here again, but, there was a victory today.  Yea!
>> Kathy
>> .
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