A victory gained through deceit may not be a victory for God.


Earlier, Kathy Du Bois wrote:
>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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