For over two and a half weeks, I did not hear anything from Peter after leaving him at Riverside Military Academy for football camp and the beginning of the school year. After two and a half weeks, having met my limit of Mom patience for knowing the welfare of my child, I contacted his supervisors. I received apologies and the assurance that I would be hearing from him that very day. So with excitement I headed to my inbox to discover this. "hello can you send me som food and snacks and sports illustrated and send me a secdule of gvill highschool football schedule all right thankyo" I am going to tell you that it wasn't exactly what I had hoped for. I didn't expect him to tell me how wonderful school was nor thank me for sending him. I did expect the "I hate it here" that did come in a later e-mail. However I did really hope for some information about his roommate, football, anything. Basically all the communication I have received since the first one has revolved around what he wants or needs and complaints about my not sending snacks. I have responded with expectations for appropriate communication that would lead to my wanting to go out of my way to send snacks. And yet I still receive scantly written "give me" e-mails.
The other day I was praying and realized that my prayers didn't sound much different from Peter's "give me this and that" communication. Wow. Now that was convicting
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