Well you you prognosticators.......yes she only seemed to read the last sentence.
A lengthly back and forth ensued. Heres the first part of it.
HER: You were not there to say such things. The only point of the talks were to be encouraging, and they were...very much so. Mothers gather guilt like lint....and old jewish saying that tends to be true. I don't want to hear criticism of my hope or my loving father. It is a priviledge to be even the smallest part of this loving international brotherhood, declaring Gods kingdom and jesus ransom sacrifice. My only regret is that I did not come to know jehovah sooner in my life. I pray to endure until the end and praise him with my last breath. My dear son, I feel you have been poisoned. I wish you would take off the negative grey glasses you look through. Gods Kingdom will rule over the earth. You know the scriptures. You know about the paradise. I will absolutely always love you.
ME: Mom. I love you too. Its because of that love i want you to think seriously about what you just did. You called my criticism of a man giving a talk, as being against jehovah. It wasn't. It was against Mr Morris. You conflate the two (men and God) so easily mom. I think that is not right to do, and yet you do it so easily, and probably without knowing it.
My comments stand. The subtext was clear. The man admitting it was his fault his 2 youngest were not JW's.....was told he was right to feel that way in this talk. "God understands? Thats not the Jehovah of the bible, not the Jehovah I know." Terrible......just terrible.
Ranting about tight workout clothes, visiting Disneyland instead of bethel, kids being out of the religion being the parents fault, bright socks, a homosexual agenda to get men to wear tight pants so they can walk around ogling them.......and this is the leadership? The dominant personality on the body? Good grief mom. All I wanted to do was tell you that you raised your children well, that you taught them proper values, and that you should not judge your efforts as a mother as succesful or not succesful based on this one small aspect of their life decisions. If that didn't cross your mind, them my statement probably isn't very meaningful, but when i heard it i felt compelled to reach out to my mother, and tell her never to allow herself to have guilt uneccesarily heaped on her. Thats it.
And mom.......I'm not negative. You already know this. and I forgive you for suggesting I'm poisoned. I realize the training is that you must square someone leaving with one of two things. They either have a flaw in their heart condition, or are weak. what a sad thing to think about your most well balanced, happy and succesful of your children. I don't hold it against you when you say those things. You latched onto the last sentence of a text...a sentence I probably wrote uneccesarily out of frustration, but you ignored my point. Why not re-read it?
More to follow.