Tuesday

Monday our boy was talking with the protege and commented on his 'new' phone. Protege was drinking and said Nabal needed a new phone because it was to hard to text his girlfriend. With a little prodding he said yeah he's always texting and visiting her.

I should have driven around a while because I made the biggest mistake- I got mad and went off. Bad mistake, not because he did anything to me, but because I gave him the opportunity to lie and now to go more underground. I let my anger control me. The thought that all his friends were looking at me as the fool being cheated on... just couldn't handle it.

So, now "She's so pretty!" is exchanged for "we talk about raising kids and the Lord." He says to me, "You never seem to see the text where she asks me to pray for her or where I'm talking about prayer. You don't know how hard this is for me. It's a spiritual battle and I'm trying to do good things." "There's a hook to this texting. I just can't stop." So found out CM in Denver is Clementa. Clementa, Elvira... whatever. He is once again on the tale that Mary (Mario) never showed up at the hotel. I think this is the third version of this I have heard. He said he doesn't know how to react when he has a woman for a friend, so he hides it because he thinks he's doing something bad. Yeah, ok. I did have some fun with him, I told him he talks in his sleep when he drinks. He tried to turn things around on me. He accused me of locking up the computers so he can't check. Well, he has a point, but all this is recent. For years up until I got this computer everything has been open. I answered him that for years we have tried to teach him how to use the computer independently and he refused. He would become annoyed that we just didn't sit there and find things for him as he asked.

He said one of the good things he tried to do that day was counsel a young couple in their marriage...

Then after he tried to shift blame to me, which I graciously declined, danced around telling me I had no clue how hard what he was going through was in this spiritual battle. Nabal asked me to take him to get more beer, yup drinking again. Told him that since he's in a spiritual why would he want me to assist the enemy... He had a look like he never thought of that and he'd painted himself into a corner. I walked away.

I got him going though, told him I know people who know his 'friend' He came back 30 min later and really tried to find out who I knew and what they said about the woman. Boy did he wheedle, hug and try to cajole. I led him down the wrong path, told him that it was people at my church. Since this gas station is on the same property as my church. He was relieved. "Those people don't know her!" I let it lay. I'm going to find more folks who do and find out the truth. Because according to him Mary already has a boyfriend. Oh and she has given him many opportunities to be intimate with her and he has declined. I wonder whether this was before or after they pray?

Seems his previous pastor is being divorced and sued for abuse. Folks if you see flaws, first of all pray,