O kathy,
What a mess!
No I am standing with you.  God's truth shall prevail.  Keep standing.
Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 5:46 AM
Subject: awakened in the night by a phone call


> 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
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