I celebrated T-day when I was a JW. Actually, they should rename it Football-Parade-Eat Day.
Blondie
Thanksgiving ? Have you left the mind control?
by AK - Jeff 15 Replies latest jw friends
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Mysterious
I had to work on thanksgiving but my bf's family boxed me some leftovers which I had no trouble eating.
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Alpheta
No.
Stuffed myself full of turkey and all the trimmings today, including my sister's too-gooey stuffing, lol! Everything else was so tasty and delicious - I'm still stuffed and I got home over 4 hours ago, and even if the food had been bad, the company was excellent - my family are very good companions with a great sense of humor, we laugh and laugh and chat up the day and night. Three generations of us were present today: my mother (dad is deceased), her grown children, and several of her grown grandchildren. At Christmas four generations will be present (some of my mother's great-grandchildren will be present). My fiance will be flying in from Montreal for a week over Christmas and all will be good with the world. I hadn't let out the news of his visit until today and we've been invited for Christmas dinner to five different homes, so he won't have to cook after all (he wanted to make a turkey, he has experience cooking turkey, which I do NOT, lol!)
I'm buying those "animated deer" this year - will have an entire herd in my front yard - and a couple out in the backyard too.
I remember when I was still "in" - there was a "story" given on a Tuesday night service meeting about a family who HAD LEFT THE TRUTH - and about three years later some witnesses were driving past the house of the former, now fallen JWs and lo and behold, they had christmas decorations plastered all overed their house! Well, that's me, I'm on the three year plan!!!!!
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gumby
Anyone who celebrates this demunized holiday will end up just like the originator of this god dishonoring holiday.
I hope you all burn in hell
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Soledad
No I don't feel guilty with regards to holidays but I do feel an overwhelming sense of sadness when I hear people's holiday stories and all the great memories they have of holidays past with family and friends and then I realize that I can't draw upon any stories of my own. There is sort of this lingering "disconnected" feeling if you know what I mean that prevents me from really enoying the holiday seasons, and I don't believe that will ever go away.
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AK - Jeff
There is sort of this lingering "disconnected" feeling if you know what I mean that prevents me from really enoying the holiday seasons, and I don't believe that will ever go away.
I feel a measure of that too, Soledad. I have the same 'feelings' regarding participation in politics, lack of education and career, and my failure to have 'joined in' in most past family events, also participation in worthwhile charities and community activities.
Still, moving on is of great value in disipation of that I think. I have committed to an 'over the top' approach to holidays. I sing Xmas songs all year, greet people with 'Happy New Years' till I am sure others are sick of hearing me. I bought not one flag to hang on my home, but two. I am decorating the heck out of Christmas, and I send B-day and Xmas cards all over the place.
I will settle into a routine that is me sometime, but for now I am overdoing it purposely, with a view to getting connected.
Jeff