Self denial for the sake of the WTS?

by greendawn 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  GetBusyLiving

  I put myself on a hardcore stint (stint: short burst of zeal for dub related activities to save your sorry ass from impending destruction) for awhile after I got reproved once in highschool. About two weeks in I picked up a hot girl I used to hang out with a while back, that was hitchiking. When I got her home she asked me if I would like to "come upstairs smoke a joint with me and have sex?". I blurted out "Uhhh.. thats probably not a good idea.. right now." As I drove away, blueballed, I tried to keep telling myself that the holy spirit had protected me from the machanations of this evil vixen. I had passed a test from Satan himself.

  I still regret that.

  GBL
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  crazyblondeb

  While trying to be a "good example", or at least keep up with the teens that were, I resented every meeting, every knock on every door. The elder's made me give up knowing my real dad, since he was "bad association". It took a long time to accept I sacrificed being a normal teen and going to college.

  But when I left, I had to sacrifice my family. Leaving my sisters and bother was the hardest thing I ever did. I raised them cause my mom was so depressed she wouldn't leave her room. My stepmom reminded me for years that when they get old enough they'd leave to. She was right.