you who don't know -- i'm daed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.. this morning she sent me an email that said:.
25 today.
it would be sooooo wrong for someone to say -- "happy birthday" .. but its fine to mention that i am 25 today.
I can't give my Mom a birthday present on her day but many years ago I started a "tradition" of giving her a gift on MY birthday. I tell her it is my thanks to her for giving me life. She is always so touched and she seems to really look forward to it.
I LOVE this idea -- I think I'll do that next year. Too bad you didn't tell me that sooner.
you who don't know -- i'm daed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.. this morning she sent me an email that said:.
25 today.
it would be sooooo wrong for someone to say -- "happy birthday" .. but its fine to mention that i am 25 today.
One of my customers brought me an Easter Basket! :)
And you're welcome CoCo
Renee
you who don't know -- i'm daed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.. this morning she sent me an email that said:.
25 today.
it would be sooooo wrong for someone to say -- "happy birthday" .. but its fine to mention that i am 25 today.
So they're not invited for the Moon Jump and pony rides when I turn 40 ;-)
You would have loved my first birthday party last year. I had a Cenderella cake, balloons, bubbles, plates, napkins .. you name it .. all in a bar! .. we got toasted and had a ball!
This year its the Sunday school group having a dinner at my favorite sushi restaurant. My how things change.
you who don't know -- i'm daed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.. this morning she sent me an email that said:.
25 today.
it would be sooooo wrong for someone to say -- "happy birthday" .. but its fine to mention that i am 25 today.
Ya'll are so sweet! Thank you!!
you who don't know -- i'm daed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.. this morning she sent me an email that said:.
25 today.
it would be sooooo wrong for someone to say -- "happy birthday" .. but its fine to mention that i am 25 today.
You who don't know -- I'm DAed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.
This morning she sent me an email that said:
25 Today
It would be SOOOOo wrong for someone to say -- "Happy Birthday" .. But its fine to mention that I am 25 today. What exactly is the difference? LOL I'm so glad I'm out of there so I can quit acting like an idiot myself.
Renee
a life, a career, a woman that can think for herself and real friends .
what did you gain?
Freedom to use my brain instead of just washing it all the time.
An open, honest relationship with my fiance.
Happiness, Friends who actually care about me, Unconditional love.
many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.
for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.
for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.
I am a LOT happier.
I am a prodestant Christian so I get to have a purpose in life and a God who is always by my side. My relationship with God is much stronger now than it ever was while I was in.
My life is fulfilling and joyful. I am glad to know that JWs are wrong but I never want to loose my faith.
do you tend to swear and curse now??
overindulging in drinking??
smoking??
When I was a JW I was a liar and greedy -- I drank but never got drunk.
When I first left, I drank, smoked, fornicated, and swore but no more lieing. I up front and honest about who I was and what I was doing.
Then I found myself enjoying being nice to people. The greed disappeared. Then the drinking stopped because I decided that I really just didn't like it all that much. I've been "out" twice in a year and each time I had a couple of drinks and not even a buzz.
The fornication changed to one person instead of whoever randomly caught my attention. I'll be getting married in June then we can say that the fornication is gone. I'm still smoking -- I don't know when I'll get around to trying to quit.
I am a much nicer, friendlier person now. Overall much more moral too.
when i was a jw, my idea of worshipping god was to put in at least 10+ hrs.
in fs monthly, attend 5 mtgs per wk, study for those meetings, make back calls (or what is now called rv's), conduct bible studies, have a family study once a week, pioneer when able, go to all the assemblies, etc.
what, if anything, do you consider worship?.
singing
whenever i would go to conventions, i thought it was weird how at the end of the brothers' talks (especially the older ones like from the governing body or whatever), they would start getting louder and louder and louder.
ie; "in this time of the end, we need to keep on the watch for our adversary satan is roaring about like a lion!!!!
do you agree??".
I think it was to get some emotion aroused out you.
