Monday

God is sooooo good. Lots of people at church have helped, commiserated, and prayed for and with our boy. Nabal on the other hand went between laughing and telling the boy to talk to this entity. He insinuated that it was my fault, all my fault for not being Mexican. Yet admitted having been plagued by something very similar to this as a teen. Our boy is learning through prayer, worship, the word of God and by listening to other Christians tell him of their experiences past and ongoing to fear nothing except God. He is calmer, kinder and gentler. He is able to resist the barrage of suggestions and they fled from him. He used to act on these things thinking they were his thoughts. This last time the Lord in His graciousness allowed the boy to discern the difference in the voices. He saw the hate filled tricks for what they were, submitted to the Lord, resisted and the devil fled. This thing and the protege are intertwined also, our boy also feels committed to loosing him from it's hold through praying with him and helping him meet and form a relationship with the Lord. The one question he has in his mind is why Nabal would not venture to pray for or with him. One of the reasons I hesitated in telling Nabal, because I was putting off all of us being disappointed by him.

Nabal preached yet again yesterday. I think he may be really sincerely in his heart trying to do for the Lord. It is his actions that he is trying to cover for that are pulling him down. I am back to taking things at face value. So last night he finally went to the store and bought 3 24oz's and half way through them turned to me and said, "You know one of these days you really need to get drunk with me." That was it. No more. Just out of the blue. Seems everyone else has stopped drinking with him. He took the guy across the street to allegedly pick up his daughter up on the highway, but the guy told our boy they went downtown. Just nonsense like this. Our girl returns this week and I have realized that fighting for the spiritual health of the kids and school are waaaaaaaaaay more important than trying to figure out the erratic actions of a rebellious man- Nabal.