Kathy,
    I'm praying for Chris and your family.  I know it has to be hard going
through all of this but I'm glad he has a good therapist and he went to
church.  Keep hanging in there.

Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:04 AM
Subject: God certainly knows what he is doing.


> Hi Guys,
>         Well, yesterday was Wednesday and I thought that I'd give you an
update on
> Chris.  He had been planning on getting high yesterday after his visit to
> the probation officer. You will recall that I was praying that he would
get
> busted.  It looks like God had a better idea.  Leave it to a
> Prffessional.  Let me tell you.   Well, Chris went back to his old dealer
> on Tuesday and left $30 in our mailbox for the guy to pick up and deliver
> the goods.  Well, you guessed it.  The money is gone and there was nothing
> in its place.  "A fool and his money," I guess.  Chris is mad and he has
no
> clue that we know so he can't talk to us about it and he just has to
bottle
> it all up inside for now.  He made some threats in instant messaging about
> slashing their tires, but he's too much of a chicken to do that.  Plus, he
> is on conditional release.  Nothing like a straight ticket back to jail.
>         To get us to take him to the bank to get the money, he told us
that he
> wanted to buy a school T shirt, which of course, he hasn't.  He took the
> last $20 out of his account, leaving $1.30 to his name.  He told somebody
> that he put $30 in the mailbox though and this morning I discovered $10
> missing from my purse.  That probably makes me as mad as anything!!  We've
> already told him that we are cutting off internet privileges  at the end
of
> the month if he doesn't pay up his cable bill to us.  We're dropping
> cable  at the end of the month ourselves.  With this new car and paying
for
> repairs on the old, we just can't afford it and dile up works fine for
> us.  He won't be able to play his games any more or I M whenever he wants
> too, but tough.  He refuses to go back to his old job because he hates the
> fact that his pay is direct deposit, but we arre more sure than ever that
> this was the right thing to do.  We may not have that luxury if he lands a
> new job and he has filled out a few applications now. He can't talk to us
> about any of this because he would have to admit to so much, but I am
> praying that he will talk to his therapist about all this tomorrow.  This
> guy is really decent.  We really like him, but we are trying to stay out
of
> the picture as much as possible so that Chris and he will build the
> relationship instead of having us involved with it.
>         After Chris got ripped off last night, Greg did take him down to
the
> Wednesday service at Calvary Chapel.  The pastor is a good guy.  He and
> Greg are friends, but Chris doesn't know that either.  Anyway, Chris was
> much more comfortable last night and said that he is willing to go
> back.  Go God!
> Kathy