This is the tale of a young man that had a bright future as a cellist..He was only sixteen and things were looking bright if not for the very one that was supposed to be the head of the household. We'll call him Jack...short for jackass BTW. Jack was a violent man, living and conducting himself as an upstanding JW in the eyes of the congregation...he beat his wife, married his 16 year old daughter off to some cretin, mistreated his other daughter, and finally took much aggression out on his sons...Well Jack did a real good job of beating the hope out of the prodigal one...he gave up playing cello and ran away from home to join the Navy during Vietnam...The rest of his life was hard and being rather tall, even for a Prodigal one, his body got tired after a hard life...congenital lung disease, several bad motorcycle wrecks/suicide attempts IMO, he's dying now..on a respirator...to complicate things, his wife of more than 15 years died today of congestive heart failure and complications from open heart surgery....You see, he never went home because there is not one to go back to...his mother died of cancer , Jack left his first family and moved on to abuse two others while remaining a JW (not one now as far as I know) and has not been heard from for years. His siblings, except my own mother, are crazy or not around to help. Even my own mother still believes he will be forgotten by her god, yet will probably have some JW funeral for himwhen the time comes..the perfect opportunity for yet another witness.....Its a sad day here in Big D and just another fine example of what Jehovah's loving provision really means. Have a good day everyone and one can only hope for the sake of us all that this story doesn't repeat itself ad infinitum.
edited cuz there is difference between congestive and congenital..
Sincerely,
District Overbeer