Email from Debbie - March 23, 2002

    I am flabbergasted and deeply saddened by what you have done. I wish to address this with total honesty and with love for you, but with needed firmness. We are called to admonish one another and so I ask you read patiently and with openness to understand what I am about to say. I feel like a mother about to scold a child.

    For whatever reason/s you have decided to separate from Little Pebble and I don't even need to know them, the way you've gone about this is so totally unfair, unkind, uncharitable and yes--sinful! How could you try to destroy someone's reputation in so harsh a way--and then air it on the internet encouraging others to spread the "news.?" Add to that, your deleting AOT immediately afterwards not even giving others a chance to air their side. I would have expected more from you especially because you know how St. Joan was never allowed to defend herself. And you even wrote a beautiful article on this once comparing the unfairness to her with the same unfairness given to Little Pebble. And yet, that is exactly what you have done. Glenn, that message reeks of vengeance and anger. These are not of God. Your attacks against him were merciless. It is enough to make me fall apart and cry.

    St. Joseph's feast day was yesterday--the 19th. How would he have acted? How would our Blessed Mother have acted? What would Jesus have wanted you to do? St. Joseph, in his wonderful charity and love, as hurt and confused as he was, was ready to "divorce Her quietly." Why couldn't you have done the same thing? Where was the need to totally destroy a man's reputation? And your attacks were against him, personally. Did it help you to come with a whole bandwagon of defectors? Naming names? We all sin, Glenn. We are all great sinners. There is no way I can see heaven's hand in this. If you say you prayed over this as much as you have, then it just seems that your mind was made up a long time ago to go ahead in this manner and nothing was going to change it. If you'd have given heaven a chance to work on you, then maybe the outcome would have been different.

    What I can see here Glenn, and I say this with love in my heart for you, is that you need to be humbled. I can hear the pride loud and clear and we know how offensive that is to God. This business of everyone falling from grace has got to stop. That is absolutely not your call. You've used it before in some of your letters to us when speaking of others. You must be more careful Glenn, that your will does not get in the way. For what you are accusing others of doing, you are doing yourself. You cannot force control of every situation. You have been greatly blessed by heaven, but need to leave more in God's hands. You need to see what you are doing and that it is not always right.

    You know, I pray always to St. Joan. I invite her to spend time with me at adoration for which I try to go each weekday. I ask her to pray with me for all involved in this. I especially ask her to intercede for you.  I always tell her to let you know how much we love you because we do. I have prayed for there to be no division. I pray to St. Michael always, asking him to intercede to keep the evil spirits from trying to divide. We are the remnant, dear Glenn. We can't have this. Your actions have tried to create a strong division, but also without any love. This, too, goes strongly against the commandments.

    I'm asking you to stop this although the damage has been done. If whatever you were inferring in your letter today is true or not, you did not go about this in the right way. I ask you also to read the message I posted again today from James McNichols. That is how our Jesus wants us to act--not as judge, but silently, prayerfully. I posted that to put an immediate stop to any ongoing attack against Little Pebble and please notice there were only a few responses so far, but in defense of him even if only as a human being.

    Now, you can read this in acceptance of what I've said or respond defensively. Either way will tell me a lot. I love you very much and am thankful to have you as a friend and confidant. I know this is strong coming from me, but I feel it is necessary. I want no hard feelings. This is not the time. You are always in my prayers.

Truly,

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