Now I know how Job felt!!!!

Member' a certain lockin that I assisted with. Weeeeeeeeellllll okay then. I went out to dinner with some friends the other night. They took us out to say goodbye to my Capt. He is leaving to go to the States on a 3 1/2 month adventure courtesy of the Air Force. Anyway, they told us that there was a rumor going around that our middle daughter (sorry mom for the visual that is to come) got buck naked and had wild monkey sex on the pool table. Let me give you a minute to digest that......................................................Enough time?? No?? Okay, a minute more...........................................................................Un-huh. Can I just tell you that the rage and white hot anger I felt while getting that little bit of wonderful information, well let's just say it could've lit up a small country for years. What is a mother to do? I had just given a message to the kids in Children's church about gossip and forgiveness. See where I was going with the whole Job thing. I was being sifted my fellow Christians!! Sifted like a year old sack of wheat. So what could I do?? Let me show you what I wanted to do....


I wanted to open up a can of this and let loose. After a sleepless night of praying and thinking and walking around the house and being madder then a hornet and praying and thinking this is what I did.

I called up the moms of the two kids involved. Then I met with them face to face, one at a time. It went well. I also told my daughter. That went not so well. To say she was devastated is to be putting it mildly. I had "the boy" in question come over. I told him to look me in the eyes and know that what I was about to tell him came straight from the heart. I told him, " I am going to stop this rumor. There will be apologies all around. I know that this is not true. YOU WILL DEMOLISH ALL INVOLVED WITH THE FURY OF THE AGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Then I sent them off to school. By the time they got home the story had gotten bigger. Now there was mention of another girl taking naked pictures of herself. My hubby and I decided to ask all the parents involved to meet us at church that night and bring the kids. We'd get to the bottom of this in no time. The meeting went well. I lost my temper once and my daughter had to calm me down. She is quite the young woman and handled this with grace. The story started, from what we gather, by a 4th grade boy. There were many tears and many heartfelt apologies. We had to handle it like Christians. We let the kids know that we still loved them and cared about them. I had to let them know that I forgave them even though it was hurtful. They learned a lesson on how a small bit of gossip can spread like a plague and how it can hurt not only the person involved but the people around them. I learned that my hubby is incredibly sexy when he is in charge of a meeting...heeheehee a little humor there :)
So this crisis is over. Pray for me people!! I am trying to get these three kiddos to adult-hood here!! My kids are learning many lessons here about how to treat others. Sigh. I am hoping in the end it turns out to be a good thing. In the meantime, can anyone out there send me some chocolate?? HELLO OUT THERE...ANYONE??? SOS....SEND CHOCOLATY THINGS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dawn