Are you Sharing? (page 2)

prophecor

Didn't you just love helping the friends? I mean, it was all about love, dont'cha know? They were anxious to have you come by and mow the lawn, take out the trash. They really knew how to bring out the very best in you. They seemed to know that you would be willing to lay down your very soul for them, if that be required, but it was all for the good of the brotherhood, while you were given the opportunity and privilege of showing absolute Christian love & compassion. What better friends, eh?

katiekitten

I remember a lovely sister in Portswood Southampton cong who did a brick laying course at college. She then volunteered her skilled services for quick builds. She was turned down ??!!! BUT the same elder who deemed it unseemly for her to brickie for jeesus, let her build him a first class brick BBQ in his garden for free. Big of him.

prophecor

the same elder who deemed it unseemly for her to brickie for jeesus, let her build him a first class brick BBQ in his garden for free. Big of him.

Ya' See, Now thats the kinda' I'm talkin' bout y'all, Loyal Love, Uncompromising Love, Love that knows no boundaries.

Preston

I was a giver, I will say the majority of people I did things for were very appreciative despite having nothing to give in return, we had a lot of poor couples in our congregation. I fixed a lot of people's computers when I was a JW, I did my hall's accounting, I helped a lot of people move....

Despite the nature of being a JW, I really did think the whole JW experience had instances of people just being nice, wanting to help other people out, there were a lot of dubs with good intentions. Interestingly a non JW family called our hall asking for people to help them move....and believe it or not, our congregation did help, never saw them again.

Unfortunately, I do regret sharing, I......never knew my experience would result in so many of these people turning their backs on me.

Deep down inside, most of them really love an invisible man in the sky more than you. The invisible replaces the real, The presumed replaces the reality, it hurts a person being so oblivious when people are being nice to them.

- Preston

Carol

Because my father worked for a local utility company, we were considered comfortable...so all of my clothes and toys would go to the other JW kids when I grew out of them.

I always had a car, so if there was somewhere to go we took my car and used my gas!

After I married and had not yet faded, my ex-husband and I ran a gasoline service station.....1973, 1974, 1975..during the first gas shortage....all of the witnesses knew where to go to get gas.(on credit yet!) and if they needed something fixed they brought it to us and then made payments (when they remembered). We towed people, fixed flats in the rain, etc.

And yet, years later, after we had sold the business.....they could not come to my home for my pioneer sister's bridal shower, because they were going through the "not associating with unbelievers" phase and my ex-husband was not a believer....but they could go to my parent's house (dad was never a JW)and eat the food and drink the beer and alcohol my ex-husband paid for. Go Figure!

No, I wouldn't offer them any help! But if anyone at JWD need something....If I have it....it's yours.

mrs rocky2

Rocky and I owned/operated an auto mechanic shop for many years, and he is a farmer so he can fix anything. There were some that we helped and it was truly a wonderful feeling.

There was one couple from another congregation who's car broke down at the edge of our town. They were still more than 120 miles from their home. They had two little girls, it was a Sunday afternoon so none of the repair shops were open. We were on our way to another town in the opposite direction to take our little girls ice skating. Rocky fixed their car. They had no money to pay him, even for parts. But we did receive a very nice thank you in the mail and a beautiful beadwork broach and beaded hair combs for our girls. They were so appreciative. And I would have felt bad if they couldn't get those two little girls back home safely.

But there were others in the congregation who made fairly good income who were constantly calling to get free mechanical advice. One of them worked at the local hardware store. We wouldn't dare ask him to give us free stuff from the store! but they just don't make the connection that our income came from paying customers and that by taking the time to give them free advice, we were taking time away from serving our paying customers.

Rocky always liked helping the widowed sisters when their washers or dryers broke, they were always so grateful for any kind of help. And we always helped folks move since we have the big 2-ton truck. Some were grateful, some not.

loosie

I remember one middle aged sister who would make a handmade quilt for evey baby born in the congo. She did this for over 20 years.

Preston

Rocky always liked helping the widowed sisters when their washers or dryers broke, they were always so grateful for any kind of help. And we always helped folks move since we have the big 2-ton truck. Some were grateful, some not.

(Preston doing his best Marlene Dietrich with a cigarette holder in hand looking gorgeously out into space)

"Zat Rocky iz a helluva man..waznt he..."

- Preston

Frog

More so now than I ever was then. I never truly felt a sharing, caring spirit in all the time I grew up in the org. It was obvious that in my area that dubs always had alterior motives for the good they did. Frog x

Ms. Whip

i thought with my heart and not my brain. my lips could not mouth the word "no." i did everything like i was working for jehovah. from cutting the circuit overseer's hair to cleaning an elder's garage. i volunteered for everything and everyone. i enjoyed working at quickbuilds & assemblies. what i didn't enjoy is being used. once the brothers would find out you had a talent (or a running vehicle), it was expected you used it for them.

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