Every evening, after dinner, husband and me go for a half hour walk. We leave the younger kids with the older ones and we're off!
Last evening we were striding along and we saw a man a little way ahead of us dressed in suit and overcoat, carrying a brief case and continually looking at his watch. He stopped at the crossing looking very harrassed and we caught up with him. It was my cousin, an Elder at the local KH. He looked stressed and red faced and at first didn't even seem to recognise us. I said 'Hello' and he seemed to snap out of his concentration. He was on his way to an Elders Meeting after being at work all day. He had rushed home and was now rushing off to another meeting!
We watched him dash off to the hall after saying 'bye'.
'That's sad!' my husband said. 'He should be at home with his wife......making babies or something!.'
.(They're a childless couple in their mid forties who are waiting for the New System to have children!)
We talked about them for a while and suddenly started laughing.
I wanted to be sure we laughing about the same thing. 'We are laughing at ourselves and how we used to be aren't we.....and not them.'
My husband nodded. 'I can't believe we used to be like that!'
We've come a long way....to the point of really not giving tupence what happens at the WTBTS.
However, when I see things like I saw last night, I realise that the fight is still on and the WTBTS must not be allowed to continue quietly deceiving but MUST continually be challenged like all things bad and evil.