Sometimes you wonder if the WTBTS will ever come to a dead end. But, it is always encouraging when you hear of the gradual awakening of individuals who have been trapped in the cult their whole lives.
Walking home from school yesterday I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned round to see a JW i have known since he was a little boy. He has been a window cleaner since leaving school and is married with three children.
Straight away he said to me: ' My wife has gone to university!' he was really happy about it. 'She's studying really hard now.'
'Well done!' I said to him. 'What are you doing?'
'I'm going to university too!' he grinned happily. 'I'm going to be a physiotherapist!'
'I am so proud of you!' I said.
'I've had enough of cleaning. I'm not living like that anymore. We're both thinking long term now and thinking about the future.'
'I'm proud of both of you' I said to him. We'd reached his car and he offered me a lift to wherever I was going, but I was literally a minutes walk from home.
I would have like to have found out more about their thinking but am so impressed with them both. They both have fanatical JW family and I know they are probably not too impressed with their uni attending relatives.
Gradually, the WTBTS is bleeding to death. It's members are slowly waking up, but in greater numbers than ever before!