Karen,
He did say last night that he is grateful to have parents who will go to
such lengths for him.  One other thing that we talked about last night is
one of his friends who is a real druggy and we both know that the mother in
that situation has chosen  to bury her head in the sand.  Chris will often
make comments out of the blue about how, we're doing it the right way, even
though he still fights us tooth and nail.  I'm pretty sure that, even
though he hates the consequences, he's pretty  glad that he has such tough,
nosy parents.
Kathy


At 11:46 AM 7/15/2005, you wrote:
>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
> > .