Kathy, I'm praying for Chris, and I'm certainly praying for you and 
your family.

Please keep us posted. I know this is hard, as we've been in that 
situation with my oldest brother when we new where he was, and he was 
always in trouble.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson



At 07:46 AM 6/5/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>         Well, after giving a pretty good report of how things went 
> Friday, it would seem that, possibily, the roller coaster is going 
> again.  Last night, we were awakened in the middle of the night by 
> a phone call from the girl friend of Chris's roommate.  Her name is 
> Sam.  She was really upset.  Evidently, Chris packed up and moved 
> out yesterday and moved to a friend's house and in the process of 
> moving, took her computer.  Then, she said that she got the 
> computer back, but the hard drive was missing.  Then she called 
> back to say that Chris had come back in the middle of the night and 
> punched her boy friend in the face.  We don't know what to 
> think.  We have no way of getting hold of Chris.  We have no clue 
> how this girl got our phone number.  We don't know who is telling 
> the truth.  Chris had told us on Friday that she was calling 
> around, spreading a lot of lies about him stealing, but she claimed 
> last night that she wasn't the one who was doing it and that the 
> actual culprit is the guy that Chris moved in with.  I have a 
> feeling that everybody is lying and we hadn't planned on getting 
> into the middle of any of this, but, here we are.  This girl, Sam, 
> claims to have gotten the police involved and if Chris is guilty of 
> assault and battery, as an adult, he may have just kissed is plans 
> for the military goodbye.    She also let us know that Chris was 
> indeed fired from his job on Saturday, but if that is because of 
> the lies she told, or the truth that Chris really was stealing, we 
> just don't know.
>         I don't know what to think.  The phone call was jarring, to 
> be awakened from a deep sleep, to say the least.  We got up and 
> locked our doors and just prayed.  I just pray that, somehow, the 
> truth will get sifted out of all the mess and that the right people 
> are punished.  If that's Chris, then, I'm sorry, but we won't 
> rescue him from his own foolishness.  That's a hard thing to say as 
> a parent, but in Proverbs it says, "Discipline your son, for in 
> that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.  A hot 
> tempered man must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have 
> to do it again."  Proverbs 19:18-19  The best thing that Chris 
> could do is turn to Jesus.
>Kathy