Posted on 02/20/2005 12:25:37 AM PST by Sunshine55
Please pray for my 17 year old daughter's safety, that the Lord is watching over her and protecting her from harm. I just filed a missing persons report with the Columbus Police Department about an hour ago, when it became apparent that I was not going to get the usual call from her letting me know where she was.
I left for work at 10:45 am and the last thing she said was that she was going to get her hair cut. No e-mail, no phone calls to me throughout the course of the day, which struck me as odd, because we hadn't had any harsh words and life seemed to be great. I got off work at 9 pm and she wasn't home, which isn't unusual because she spends alot of time with Young Life. Hours passed, no phone call. By 2 I was nearly hysterical with worry. I have left messages on her friends' cell phones hoping for a call back. I am sorry to say that I was not able to give the officer a description of what she was wearing, only a picture.
This is SO out of character for this young lady. She's always been the responsible one, even though she has been suffering from Senior-itis this year and has tested the boundaries to the limit. I am so frightened thinking of the possibilities here that I don't know where to turn, and I would appreciate your prayers tonight. I am hoping that perhaps she told me she'd be sleeping over tonight at a friend's house, but I have racked my brain, and frankly, I just don't remember any conversation like that taking place. (I haven't had a day off in 3 weeks.)
HA! Mine is rum!!
Praise God, Sunshine55's daughter has been found!
It seems that someone had purchased them a beer ball and and my son and his friends had spent the night drinking their hearts out. My son and one other friend were the only ones still at the hangout and they were sleeping soundly. Sleeping that is until I tore into the place, picked my son up by his hair and while he was crawling out the door, I was screaming and kicking his ass to help him along.
The kid who was in the hangout with him was supposed to have been spending the night at our place. Come to find out, he had taken the tap from his parent's home and used it on the beer ball. I took him back home, and although I had to wake his parents up, they were glad to know what he had been up to.
My son gave me the name of the person who had bought the beer ball. It turned out to be a young married girl (with a baby) who had lived next door to us in the same town. I was totally p.o'd and called her to let her know I was reporting her to the cops. She didn't seem to understand what she had done wrong. I explained to her that if any one of those kids had been hurt or killed after having drunk the beer she had bought for them, she could be in alot of trouble. And I told her that I was sure when her daughter got older, that she wouldn't appreciate some adult providing her underage kid with alcohol. I did call the cops and give them her name, and from what I understand she was given an appearance ticket, but I never heard anything more about it.
Praise God, Sunshine55's daughter has been found!
When My mom caught me drinking one night *at home* I paid the penalty for years, and that didn't include the 6 months of her not buying pizza for dinner! That was murder for a teenager!
Thank God everything turned out all right.
Hope you get some sleep now :-)
Thank you for the ping.
Sunshine55, I'm glad this will turn into the night you and your daughter will wincingly laugh about decades from now.
All the best to your family...
God may forgive Christina, but I'm not too sure mom will ;)
The stress of this can knock Sunshine out for a week ... I hope she rewards herself with a nice bubble bath, a good book, and early-to-bed.
This had a happy outcome for which we are all so thankful. Praise God !!!!
Thank you Lord!
So glad you found her,
and you CAN at least be proud that she had enough sense not to drive!
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Sunshine, I echo the suggestion from Renfield, ican'tbelieveit, and swordmaker ... have your daughter read every word on this thread. These words blessed our hearts, and they will bless hers, too.
Pegita
Answered Prayers I am so glad for you Sunshine. I am glad we were here to pray for you and your daughter as well it was a privilage to pray for yall.
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~ Sunshine, when your daughter gets home, you should make her read every one of these posts out loud. It will help her understand what she put you and your friends through. ~
I think a few of us are definitely on the same wave length here. Thank the Lord that the young lady was found safe and sound! Kids will be kids and its amazing sometimes that we make it to adulthood with some of the antics we ourselves have pulled. Communication is the key...always let the children know that no matter if they do something against their parents wishes, having enough respect for them to minimize the worry by communicating is a better alternative than some things that could happen. Sunshine, get some much needed rest. And for Christina, young lady you're mother seems to be working more than a body has a right to for whatever reason (probably trying to provide a future for you so that you won't have to work as hard as her). Do not take advantage of her dedication. Honor, obey and respect...she's a good lady!
Oh this is GREAT news!!!! Give her heck, Mom...and then get the other parents to give the OTHER "mom" heck.
bd...THANK you for the ping!!!
Christina, you dodged a bullet on this one with some bad choices. Things don't always work out this well. You had freepers all over the country worried about you. And you don't want to mess with freepers. I guess we can cancel the order for the printing of the billboards, flyers, and milk cartons.
"...Kids will be kids and its amazing sometimes that we make it to adulthood with some of the antics we ourselves have pulled...."
My poor mother would have had a heart attack if she had known of all the risky things I did when I was a teenager...and I wasn't even a bad kid, compared to some of the people I knew growing up. At the age of 45, now, I'm still amazed I survived into adulthood.
Most children don't have a deliberate intent to hurt or worry their parents; they just don't think like adults.
WE are thankful to the only Lord and Savior for her safety.
Great and welcome news, Sunshine55! Hope you can get some well-deserved sleep tonight. Have your daughter read this thread.
I'll never forget when one of my son's friends was over. It was getting late and I asked him to call his mom and tell her he was still over my house. This kid was also a nice kid, but sometimes you have to help them stay nice, you know?
Anyway, a friend of mine was also over and she was appalled that I would intrude on my son and his friend that way; it really wasn't any of my business according to her. Of course, she was unmarried and childless, so I had to school her on the fact that any child, even a teenager, in my house, still had to conform to my rules and that meant checking in with the parents.
I know that she's married now, but don't know if she's had kids. If she has her own, I wonder if her opinion on letting teens run free has changed?
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