I still cannot call the Presiding Overseer the CoBE. Whatever.
Anyway, I really don't follow what all is going on and just pick things up during or after the fact. Like when my wife says her meeting schedule is changed "this week" due to the C.O. visit, that's when I learn that the C.O. is there. It's no big deal as I don't need to know too much of what's going on.
Except for this one fact- I am a fader they have left alone. Basically, I told the C.O. off when I resigned as an elder over 5 years ago and revealed enough of my "doubts" to make him tell the elders to pretty much leave me alone. The P.O. saw how the C.O. had botched things with me and also heeds the warning to pretty much leave me alone. He's offered to "shepherd" me and I have simply texted back, "No, thanks." That was the end of that.
Well, I have heard that the C.O. changed. I was slightly concerned about that as the new guy might have wanted to do something about Fader Me. But nothing resulted of that. Now, my wife tells me: "Brother P.O. was planning on moving away now that he retired, but his wife is really sick with a type of cancer."
I am sure my wife was expectng me to want to call Brother P.O. and wife to offer my sympathies or otherwise, I really don't know why she told me this. I guess she still thinks the love of the brotherhood will bring me back to the fold or something. While I have no animosity toward him and wife, I also know that it won't make them feel good to get a call from me unless it's to inform them that I intend to "go back." Never gunna happen.
The real thing I picked up on was that the P.O. is leaving. That peaked my interest. There's a real jerk on the "Body of elders" that enjoys his power trips. He might be gunning for P.O. (CoBE) next, or there are some elders I never met. The only thing here I am interested in is whether the next P.O. will pretty much leave me alone.
No sense worrying about it. Time will tell. Just sharing my observations.