Do You Kick Yourself For Going To Meetings When You Were Sick or During.... (page 3)

La Capra

Yeah, yeah, I know, but not my mom. She always thought people thought more of her than they did. I realized pretty early on it was out of sight, out of mind, until time sheets were due. Shoshana

Prudence

Hi La Capra,

One spring the whole house came down with a yucky flu that wiped us out for a week. We were never missers, and certainly my mom was there every meeting with at least one of us kids. Well, after we were out for the second book study, someone finally called to see what had happened to us, and my mom was so pissed it took 'em that long to miss us, she kept us home for a month. I loved that month.

I certainly can relate to that and I don't blame her I might have done the same thing.

When I was still fairly new and pioneering, I had an accident where I wrenched my right knee. An x-ray later showed that my kneecap had shifted to the right side of my leg, so I was in considerrable pain. But I still had to get my time, so I went out street witnessing on my crutches, even before I saw a doctor! I was one sick puppy!!!

That screwed up enthusiasm didn't last long though, and I eventually started to actively seek out reasons to avoid meetings and service.

Walter

Prudence

Hi iiz2cool,

When I was still fairly new and pioneering, I had an accident where I wrenched my right knee. An x-ray later showed that my kneecap had shifted to the right side of my leg, so I was in considerrable pain.

I went out street witnessing on my crutches, even before I saw a doctor! I was one sick puppy!!!

That had to be really painful and to have to get pioneer hours in too. Street witnessing on crutches?

That screwed up enthusiasm didn't last long though, and I eventually started to actively seek out reasons to avoid meetings and service

I know my pain started making the budren of being a jw become almost totally unbearable. I was doing good if I got my publisher hours in. And yet many of the pioneers wanted me to come with them to help them get their time in. They would take me on their studies so I could get my time in .So, I thought I'll help them as much as I could. After I got better, I started to not want to go out in service and my hours went way down. All the time I was in pain they didn't want to hear I was in too much pain when it came to put their hours in. But I went out as much as I could. After I got better I didn't want to go out in service and my hours went way down. I would find stuff to make me really busy so I could use that as a way out of service.

Prudence

Hi iiz2cool,

When I was still fairly new and pioneering, I had an accident where I wrenched my right knee. An x-ray later showed that my kneecap had shifted to the right side of my leg, so I was in considerrable pain.

I went out street witnessing on my crutches, even before I saw a doctor! I was one sick puppy!!!

That had to be really painful and to have to get pioneer hours in too. Street witnessing on crutches?

That screwed up enthusiasm didn't last long though, and I eventually started to actively seek out reasons to avoid meetings and service

I know my pain started making the budren of being a jw become almost totally unbearable. I was doing good if I got my publisher hours in. And yet many of the pioneers wanted me to come with them to help them get their time in. They would take me on their studies so I could get my time in .So, I thought I'll help them as much as I could. After I got better, I started to not want to go out in service and my hours went way down. All the time I was in pain they didn't want to hear I was in too much pain when it came to put their hours in. But I went out as much as I could. After I got better I didn't want to go out in service and my hours went way down. I would find stuff to make me really busy so I could use that as a way out of service.

Prudence

Sorry for the double post I had some kind of technical problem.

Room 215

My experience has been that even the most avid JW secretly enjoys being told ``stay home safe; we've cancelled tonight's meeting." Of course, such a decision is usually preceded by a perfunctory debate amongst the elders, so as to perpetuate the myth that these meetings are ``vitally important, indispensible to maintaining one's spirituality."

I really felt sorry for the poor saps who were assignec parts on the meeting, only to be told there will be no cancellation; and once they got there they find that most everyone decided to stay home anyway.

minimus

Room, I like your point about secretly feeling good about getting that phone call. That is weird but true.

Loris

At the heighth of my insanity, When I was trying to get reinstated (which by the way took three years) I had to drive 15 miles on back country roads in an old car with 5 children. I was verbally chastised for missing meetings and told that if I ever expected to be reinstated then I had better not miss any more meetings. So there I was with sick kids, through storms, it didn't matter. I was there. If a meeting was called off well guess what; nobody called me. One evening as I drove towards the KH there was a funnel cloud ahead. It was still up in the air ( not touched down) so I continued on to the meeting.

The hall was nearly empty, one elder made a comment that you could tell who truely loved Jehovah. Like the ones who stayed home were less "faithful" THERE WAS A TORNADO WATCH FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

Yes I kick myself for going to meetings.

Loris

minimus

Loris, what a powerful post!!! It makes you appreciate how this is so unreasonable----like God would be mad if you didn't go to a meeting while a tornado is swirling around you!

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