dear friends,.
please share your original short or short-short stories and poetry with us.. i'll start the ball rolling .... .
i wander as i wonder.
OLDER NOW
I woke up this morning,
After an old man's restless night.
Tired and sore from a young man's dream,
Of running miles and working hard.
As I stood with bones creaking out alarms,
I started to count the scars I gained,
Through years of pain and carelessness,
White streaks and dark memories.
After an hour's war between mirror and sight,
The final count was twenty and three.
Perhaps I might live another fifty years.
Time enough to count the scars etched upon my heart.
~by bronzefist~
(include a youtube video if possible).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-2tnp9whdu.
same here jonesie... I love Little Drummer Boy.
(include a youtube video if possible).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-2tnp9whdu.
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Santa Baby
last night one of the elders had a part in the service meeting where he informed the congregation that we are not sending our fair share to the wbts.
the congregation seems to be doing okay when it comes to contributing to the local congregation so that electric bills can be paid and so forth.
but when it comes to literature (the worldwide work), the congregation is woefully negligent.. according to this brother, a circuit overseer has recently stated that if witnesses still had to pay for their literature as they used to, individual watchtower and awake!
Excellent CoCo.. just what I was thinking.
I've heard this issue is common to many congregations.
hey everyone... what do you remember from your experience w/written reviews?.
did you correct your own paper or did you pass it to someone else?
any other details?.
Thank you all.
Yeah.. this is how I remembered the process. Boring as all hell, huge waste of time and grading by the honor system.
hey everyone... what do you remember from your experience w/written reviews?.
did you correct your own paper or did you pass it to someone else?
any other details?.
hey everyone..
What do you remember from your experience w/written reviews?
Did you correct your own paper or did you pass it to someone else? Any other details?
Thanks.
wow lovesdubs... i walked in to the village hall and it was just me and another woman to get an absentee ballot.
took some time to fill out the paper work, but not bad.
though this town is small... i wanted to avoid the long lines and wait tomorrow..
Wow lovesdubs..
I walked in to the village hall and it was just me and another woman to get an absentee ballot. Took some time to fill out the paper work, but not bad. Though this town is small... I wanted to avoid the long lines and wait tomorrow.
as most of you know..i live in the canadian wilderness,on a mountain..going to civilization is not cheap..it`s time consuming and gas is not cheap to make the trip..$15.00 round trip..or..$200.00 taxi cab fare(round trip),plus cab fare to get around town............i drove up my ranch driveway..and..got out of my truck to unlock the massive ranch gate..stuffed into the gate was the new wbt$ tract,wrapped in a plastic bag!..the title of the tract:"would you like to know the truth?
"...............actually..yes,i would like to know the truth!.....what kind of an idiot would spend all that time to drive to the middle of nowhere,spend all that money on gas,spend money on plastic bags,just to leave me a worthless wbt$ tract??!!....lol!
!..............................outlaw
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm for the field service time??? Did you ever struggle to get pioneer hours?
comments you will not hear at the10-26-08 wt study (august 15, 2008, pages 17-21 (elderly).
review comments will be in red.
older christians--only jws.
I remember in the 70's of service meetings that included different parts on our "sacred service" and what that all included - and it did include helping others. As has been stated here, what the society says and does are two different things. They like to dictate to the congregations what they should do to please god, but set no example themselves. Also, they keep their members so busy they have little time and are stretched to the max w/f. service, studying, etc. that they have little energy to help others. Shall we say, placing large burdens on people's shoulders?.... As you said Blondie, you helped out despite your busy "theocratic" schedule. I found that for the most part those who did help the elderly, etc. did it because it came from the heart.. not because someone told them it would be good to do for "heavenly gold stars". Of course, there were exceptions.
i have met some very nice people at a local methodist church during one of our conversations a woman told me they offer a program called soul care for anyone going through a tough time .it is a program to encourage basically .
when i told her i felt i had lost my whole social community since leaving the jw's she offered to mentor me in this program .
we had a first meeting to kind of get to know each other .....it just felt so weird, like being the householder on the other side of our bible study program we did as witnesses .
Hey troubled mind! How are you and your family?
I know many people here in town go to the Lutheran church only for the social offerings and so that the kids have some religious instruction in their lives. They have said that they don't believe all that is taught there, but it's something for the family to do together.
The beauty is this: Now you have choices. Spirituality is personal and no one should "force" you to believe a certain way. Get out of it what you want and leave the rest. Walk away from those who make you feel you have to choose a certain belief system.
Juni
