What I do know is that there is peace to be found and there love to be had, after the organisation

by LIftsong 44 Replies latest jw experiences

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  compound complex

  Welcome, father and daughter!

  Love never fails ...

  Love,

  CoCo
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  LIftsong

  Thanks everyone We had a great weekend together and as our time together usually is, it was full of laugther!
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  Quandry

  Welcome liftsong and littlec.

  When I left the witnesses, I realized after becoming a witness at 21 and then being "in" for over thirty years, that I didn't really know who I was. I had the vaguest notion of things through the years that I wished I could do, as in hobbies, but continually pushed them to the back of my mind, as I didn't have time for them but must be "whole souled" and "theocratic" and any hobbies or education could come later in the "new system."

  Now, at fifty-seven, I am in college part time. I am also drawing. I wish I had had art lessons so many years ago. Don't know where that might have taken me.

  My daughter is twenty-one, in college, and pursuing her dreams. I am so glad......
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  angeleyes110900

  Wow Liftsong, that was a very touching story. I was raised in a JW home for the most part, because my mom would go back and forth while raising four children. I never got baptized, because I didn't agree w/their teachings on blood, and among other things. I was baptized in September of 2009 as a christain, and it feels good to have that peace w/God! My family on my mom and dads side are JWs, so they don't have much to do with me. When I see a witness, they are polite and say hello, and look at me like i'm a poor lost soul. My mom informed me, that we could never have a good relationship because I turned away from the truth. God blessed me with a wonderful daughter, and husband whom have supported me from the beginning on my journey, of seeing the truth about this religon. I hope that all of us on this website, can support those whom have left the organization, or whom just need support!
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  Johnny

  Time flies when you are a "Witness". And before you know it, your whole life is behind you. How sad.

  And then they wonder why some are "bitter".