BACKGROUND: Amanda was her BEST FRIEND though Jr and Sr High School and the one who introduced her to to her Church, CFWC. Ironically CFWC is probably where she picked up this value system that is foreign to me.
....Granted Amanda has a LOT of issues... She has an eating disorder, she's a cutter, she dates guys that treat her like garbage (and this pattern started in Jr High). she seeks approval from these guys to the point she will break off plans long standing plans with her best friend to go and get treated like dirt by these guys once again. She is an unwed mother who is about to drop her second child of a different father.
Despite all this. Amanda graduated High school with Honors, has worked 2 jobs since High school and is going to community college, although she dropped to one job and school with the second pregnancy. She was active at CFWC until the second pregnancy, a Praise & Worship team member until the first pregnancy and SHE IS A GOOD MOTHER who loves her child with all her heart.
With all that said:
1:57pm Deb are you dating a non vegetarian?
1:57pm Sabrina no no one of interest either i'm just wasting away my fertile years in the pursuit of education
1:58pm Deb I think you have a few fertile years left in you! Speaking of fertile.... what ever happened to AMANDA?
1:59pm Sabrina idk not my problem i can't handle that girl i saw her in church a couple of weeks back w/ protruding abdomen then i heard she's giving this one up for adoption guess that way she won't be too bogged down and can keep having sex
2:00pm Deb that is not a bad thing
2:00pm Sabrina i know
2:00pm Deb the adoption I mean
2:00pm Sabrina it's what is best for the baby
2:02pm Deb she probably needs her friends now
2:03pm Deb after loving one baby giving another one away is going to be hard even if it is the best decision
2:04pm Sabrina you have to be a friend to have friends
2:08pm Deb WWJD? it is really very simple
2:12pm Sabrina being a christian doesn't mean i get to get walked all over
2:14pm Sabrina jesus also said And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them."
2:14pm Deb that does NOT apply to this situation that is one of those scriptures that twisted and used to abuse people
2:15pm Sabrina Gee really because she won't listen to my words and they're biblical and paul said
2:17pm Sabrina well i cant remember where, but he talks about departing from those who don't want to follow God's word and know what is truth
2:18pm Deb your preaching INTOLERANCE and that is NOT a testimony to Christ's love
2:20pm Deb perhaps then all of CFWC should just shun her then? lock the doors as she approaches?
2:20pm Sabrina mother, you don't even know what the CRAP i've put up with! anything i say or do will fall on deaf ears
2:20pm Deb well I know all you told me which is a lot
2:20pm Sabrina she's going to have to figure it out for herself
2:21pm Deb I digress: perhaps then all of CFWC should just shun her and lock the doors as she approaches?
2:23pm Deb what about the parable of the lost sheep or the prodigal son?? ??
2:24pm Sabrina i don't think the lost sheep knew he was lost! the prodigal son came BACK on his own then the father greeted him!
2:24pm Deb and she was in Church what about Saving Grace? isn't it all about saving Grace? those who fall under the lofty steeples
2:26pm Sabrina you know what mom how about you go be her friend then!
2:26pm Deb "lofty steeples" that is two casting Crowns lyric verses combined
2:26pm Sabrina when she's ready fine until then i'm not going to be her doormat
2:27pm Deb you know what Sabrina, if she came to my door I would be her friend and I have sent her messages on AIM
2:30pm Sabrina well good for you
Then she changed the subject... That is what happens when Sabrina does not want to go where she is not comfortable she either goes basaltic or changes the subject...
I JUST DON"T GET HER ATTITUDE!!!!! Her feeling she has the RIGHT to JUDGE and SHUN this girl!!!
The following Casting Crown lyric is ringing in my ear:
She is running
A hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction
She is trying
But the canyon's ever widening
In the depths of her cold heart
So she sets out on another misadventure just to find
She's another two years older
And she's three more steps behind
Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see?
Or does anybody even knows she's going down today
Under the shadow of our steeple
With all the lost and lonely people
Searching for the hope that's tucked away in you and me
Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see?
She is yearning
For shelter and affection
That she never found at home
She is searching
For a hero to ride in
To ride in and save the day
And in walks her prince charming
And he knows just what to say
Momentary lapse of reason
And she gives herself away
If judgment looms under every steeple
If lofty glances from lofty people
Can't see past her scarlet letter
And we never even met her
He is running
A hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction
and from Point of Grace:
She had her father's blue eyes
He left home before she arrived
Mama named her Grace
Just getting by on their own
When Grace was 15 she ran from home
One December day Grace is lost and alone in a world as cold as stone
God is counting on us to reach her with His love
It's all about saving grace
All about living love
Being Jesus to those he came to save
Sharing life and giving our own away
It's all about serving God
All about saving Grace
She'd never darken the door of any church
She would say, "what for... No one there would care for me"
We have to go where she lives
Simply show her who Jesus is
Watch Him set her free
For grace flows down from above and faith requires a selfless love
For a world that's dying to see the hope in you in me
It's all about saving grace
All about living love
Being Jesus to those he came to save
Sharing life and giving our own away
It's all about serving God
All about saving Grace
There are countless millions just like Grace
Who need a merciful embrace
They won't believe our God is real
Until they feel his touch
It's all about saving grace
All about living love
Being Jesus to those he came to save
Sharing life and giving our own away
It's all about serving God
All about saving Grace
Aren't we supposed to be holding each other up loving and supporting each other?? ?? Where did this JUDGMENT, CONDEMNATION and SHUNNING come from? What I know is she didn't get it from me, my husband or her father.
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