Anyone Experience Something Similar After Exiting

love2Bworldly

I am starting to remember something weird when I left the JW's, but wonder if it's a physchological manifestation of the brainwashing & control they had over me and the guilt trip/fear of being 'bad'.

I remember when I used to look up toward the sky sometimes and pray a silent prayer to Jehovah. After I got disfellowshipped, I felt like when I looked up and thought about God that there was almost a physical ceiling on the other side of the blue sky that curtained me off from Jehovah hearing my prayers. I don't feel that way anymore, I feel very happy not being a JW. I also do pray to God and feel that he does hear me.

Has anyone experienced anything weird like that after leaving the JW's?

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TheListener

Yes. I sometimes felt that God wouldn't listen to my prayers. Sometimes when I pray I get confused about what to call God. I feel funny not using Jehovah, but I don't think that is the correct name and I don't feel it's necessary to use it. I usually say about 3 names, jehovah, yahweh and just God. Then when my prayer is over I hope i don't get struck with lightning.

tijkmo

i still prayed while df....then at a service meeting discussing how to treat df it was said that j. wouldnt listen then at a jc for reinstatement was told to pray more cause j. would help me.........do the words hand right left know not doing ...mean anything to anyone

LittleToe

Any of you tried praying to Jesus?

(it worked for Steven)

Honesty

Any of you tried praying to Jesus?
(it worked for Steven)

It worked for me when I wanted real truth. I DA'd from the demonised WTBTS 3 weeks later.

Quotes

Hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm........

I'm not sure where you got the idea that prayer was a restricted privlege...

oh, wait a minute:

http://quotes.watchtower.ca/prayer.htm

Never mind!

~Quotes, of the "unrestricted" class

integ

do the words hand right left know not doing ...mean anything to anyone

Not really...

tijkmo

integ......matthew 6:3

Insomniac

love2b- I know exactly what you're talking about. I never had a real relationship with my creator until I left the witnesses- then, after a few months of anger and avoidance, I started praying again. I find that my prayers now have so much more meaning, and I feel that they're actually being listened to as well!

Sometimes, when I'm alone in my home and deep in my evening prayers, there is a definite feeling that I'm not alone- that the One to whom I'm speaking is present and listening to every word I say. I think that's how prayer is supposed to make us feel.

Anyone Experience Something Similar After Exiting

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