Monday, April 23, 2007

Time For Tough Love

We gave our daughter a cell phone for christmas in 2005. She did really well with it and did not abuse the priviledge as long as she lived at home. Well for a while after she moved she didn't have it because mine got messed up and I was using it. Well I got a new one and we gave her back to her in Feb.
Since then she has totally abused this priviledge by over using it and not paying her portion of the bill as agreed when it was given to her. So I had it disconnected and we went and took the phone from her this weekend. There was apparently some issue ... because she thought that we did not want her or love her anymore because we had kind of pushed her out of the nest. She is almost 20 years old and she was refusing to do anything with herself. We just wanted her to start taking responsibility for her own actions and to serve God like she commited to.

She has stopped going to church and is talking about living with some guy when she graduates.
I pray that she will not do that. I hope she will stay close to home and learn that God really needs to be the man in her life right now. She is looking for love in all the wrong ways and places.

I know that I cannot tell her how to live her life any more but all I can do is pray for her. I really hope God will hear my prayers and bring her back to serving him as she is a different person because she has truned her back on God.

Please pray for her she needs your prayers. I do know that I will not allow her to rip my heart out any longer and I told her just that. I have got to be strong for the child(ren) that God places in our home.
We are looking for another house and right now have not come up with anything. Please pray that God will allow us to find a home that will accomidate our family as it grows, that will allow my Dogs and my cats and that is in our budget.

Thanks and God Bless!
~G~

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