Maeve
Not A Captive got Humbled
by humbled 17 Replies latest jw friends
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humbled
Good morning, tammy-up-north! you old tea drinker you!
Your family doing okay? ("Okay" being very loosely defined, I know. Mine is fine--yet I am certainly hoping for things to improve.)
Maybe doing "okay" means nobody is crashing and burning? I will let you say or--not!
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tec
We're actually doing good. I forget sometimes how hard things were when last we spoke here. Hubby and I are doing GOOD. The little one is always doing good and making everyone laugh ;) My oldest as well, and he is getting ready for high school AND taking a big interest in it. I did end up taking him out of school last year because of all the effects of bullying, and the hurt AND anger that those instilled in him. He went back this year to a different school, and around different people, and so much better! We've done a lot of healing, and I think his kind heart is being freed from all the pain and hurt that came before. Things I would have never thought possible, but our Lord has made so. Really, I just had to listen and trust in Him, and never give up hope. Something you already know! Your strength is there for all to see :)
Peace!
tammy
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Phizzy
Welcome back Maeve !
For those who may not have read your letters, the link is still live !
http://s743.photobucket.com/albums/xx79/vineydee/How%20I%20left%20the%20Watchtower
may you stay laughing with us, for us, and at us for a long long time.
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return of parakeet
When my husband taught 4th grade, one of his students wrote an essay called "Asparagus." He wrote it from the asparagus's point of view, describing the agony of being chewed and swallowed, then wending its way through the digestive system.
The last line: "Five hours later, I hit the water!"
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humbled
Tammy, Phizzy! Thanks!
I am so slow at typing--hunt-n-pecker.
There is a darkness of faith when I have moved to any action. The results don't come in for a while. Yet the manner I have come to accept the darkness may be how you have seen events of this past year for your loved ones: you can only act as you have the light to act.
The light may be as dark and the time so strange as that old old story of Abraham at Gen 15. Sweaty, batty old man laying out dead animals in an open field before a God that he could barely apprehend. Fighting off carrion birds past sundown. Was God there at all?
I am so glad that there have been good things come about, Tammy. The decisions must have taxed your faith --but look now! The retelling of these things is what we owe our own family and the sharing of it with others is the sharing of faith. It is good to know the weight of love and grace can make us doubt, it is so heavy. But it isn't the new normal--it is the old normal.
At least that is my perception.
Thanks for bringing up my letters of struggling from the power of the FDS. Looking back at them myself I am amazed that whatever namely cipher had to type and send Bethel's response could not see the dishonest attempt at crushing my faith in God. That process--talk about dark!--took soooo long that I wondered what God was up to. Well, I see something that probably needed to happen--I needed to REALLY think about what religion does to any of us who seeing "through a glass darkly" nevertheless are honestly trying to see what there is to see.
It was a revelation--a monster posing as God.
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humbled
O parakeet! 4th graders. When they are 10 years old they are funny and wiser than they will be for years. Thanks!
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Bangalore
Welcome back.
Bangalore