Let's recap for a second. I sent out a text to 100's of people and a girl I didn't know tried to get me to call her so that we could have a "fun" conversation. She texted me her home phone number and then I called and asked to speak to her mom and then she hung up on me. I texted her and told her that if she did not let me talk to her mom then I would make it my life's ambition to find her mom and tell her what just happened.10 minutes later...
I called the number the fifteen year old gave me and her mom picks up. She sounds very nice and calm at this point. I explain to her mother who I am, what I do and why her daughter received a text from me. I then continue to say, "Ma'am I am sorry to tell you this but your daughter was saying some inappropriate things through text and wanted me to call so that we could have an adult conversation." Her mom was silent then says, "WHAT!" I told her that as a parent I was just calling her to let her know what had happened because I would want to know. She then asks, "What did happen?" Nothing I was just calling to let you know that your daughter is trying to have some weird conversations with a complete stranger. Then it started to go a little down hill. She turns to her daughter and says, "Who is this guy and what did you talk about." I hear in the background, "Mom he texted me first, I don't know him."
"Why are you texting my daughter?"
"Ma'am I have already explained that to you remember."
Why are you calling my daughter and trying to talk dirty she is only fifteen, and how did you get my home number?"
"Again, I have already told you all this and I am not trying to talk dirty with her that is what she was trying to do. And she texted me this number. Look at her phone and you will see."
"Let me see you phone!"
"I erased the messages mom, sorry."
"Ma'am why do you think she did that? She knew I was going to ask you to check her phone. I am sorry about this but I just wanted to let you know how your daughter was using her phone."
She then begins to ask me all kinds of irrelevant questions like name, address, phone number. I am now a little frustrated and ask this mom if she really understands what has just happened and if she has any questions for me about what just happened. She then begins to scream and yell over the phone never to text, call, contact her daughter again. Then the nice sound of a dial tone comes across the air ways. Natalie and I are still at the dinner table shocked.
I was really thinking that this mom would thank me for being an authentic person and let me listen while she beat the child. In her eyes it was my fault that her daughter did this and I was the one who lead her into it. I understand her heart was broken and a little bit blown away but her natural reaction was to blame someone else.
I hope we continually pray that God will open our eye's to the real world and help us to respond in the way that his son would. Sin has blinded so many and I wonder for those who read this, are you blinded or blaming someone else for something? May we be a people who are not deceived by false innocence nor the appearance there of.
2 Timothy 3:1-7
ReplyDeleteBut realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
Jesus...please open the eyes of the blind. Let them feel the weight of their sin and the wrath that is upon them. Take the heart of stone from within them and give them clean hearts, hearts that beat with abundant life. May You be glorified when others see the change in them...
sounds like a "MY LITTLE BABY IS PERFECT, YOU'RE THE MONSTER."
ReplyDeleteI can't stand parents that do this kind of thing to their children. That girl is being taught to lie and deceit her mother, and the woman is blindly accepting everything her fifteen year old says.
Hopefully her eyes will be opened.