several months ago i approached a nice young couple who were standing by a jw literature stand in my local community.
they were pleasant and polite but incredibly stilted when it came to answering my "innocent" questions about their beliefs.
this was the occasion of jws featuring the article headlined "is religion dying?".
Thanks, steve:
When we were new at giving talks and going out in service, we were applauded for our little efforts, but encouraged -- and expected -- to improve. Giving talks from notes, not a MS, and offering a multi-scriptural "back call" (in our early days) were simply part of the plan.
Unless, of course, you were an old brother or sister from another country who could only muster, "You take magazine, it good!"
Best wishes.
dear friends,.
one of my greatest enjoyments is a daily walk.
i see things in far greater detail than when i am driving by.
It promises to be a gray, gray week while sky pelts rain, loosening the last vestiges of autumnal color from bare-armed trees . . .
Still, there is a muted and solemn beauty in the 'hood.
continual rain, at long last, has ended another typically hot and dry summer, one that gave every appearance of extending far into a protracted indian summer.
yet, october was unusually wet.
this thanksgiving week promises daily rain.. an unforeseen sadness is creeping gradually, insidiously into the fabric of my life.
Many, many thanks, dear myelaine, for the rainbow!
Love and blessings.
continual rain, at long last, has ended another typically hot and dry summer, one that gave every appearance of extending far into a protracted indian summer.
yet, october was unusually wet.
this thanksgiving week promises daily rain.. an unforeseen sadness is creeping gradually, insidiously into the fabric of my life.
Dear Esse quam videri:
I've always been the sort that friends and family rescue . . .
Glad it was you! Thanks so much for the good words and cute images -- they worked their magic. Truthfully, I do love the rain; I cannot understand why the change in mood.
(SAD?)
Best Wishes.
i live in california where pot just became legal for recreational use very similar to alcohol.
my wife who is a very active jw has had her medical card for cannabis for a couple of years now.
and i know several in our congregations around our area who are using it medically.
Thanks, NikL!
I like your sense of humor as well as your enlightened outlook!
Best Wishes.
continual rain, at long last, has ended another typically hot and dry summer, one that gave every appearance of extending far into a protracted indian summer.
yet, october was unusually wet.
this thanksgiving week promises daily rain.. an unforeseen sadness is creeping gradually, insidiously into the fabric of my life.
Continual rain, at long last, has ended another typically hot and dry summer, one that gave every appearance of extending far into a protracted Indian Summer. Yet, October was unusually wet. This Thanksgiving week promises daily rain.
An unforeseen sadness is creeping gradually, insidiously into the fabric of my life. Dangling threads of a garment hanging loosely about my diminishing frame are unraveling more quickly than I can stitch them back together into whole cloth. Strange, this annual change in weather that I anticipate so eagerly always produces the same result upon my disposition.
I love the cool and wet and dark . . . Nonetheless, I am saddened at the departure of sun and blue sky.
i live in california where pot just became legal for recreational use very similar to alcohol.
my wife who is a very active jw has had her medical card for cannabis for a couple of years now.
and i know several in our congregations around our area who are using it medically.
Greetings, NikL:
Thanks for sharing. I, too, live in the Golden State and have non-JW acquaintances who use it medicinally.
Question: Would a JW have to take cannabis in a form other than smoking it? I just can't envision Sister NikL and other JWs with a joint in hand . . .
the first time i walked into a kingdom hall, i was about 15 years old.
i shook hands with a 12-year-old named quincy.
as time passed and we grew older, quincy hung out with us older j-dubs.
Yes, Quincy aka Quentin . . . Thanks, Terry, for the memory jog.
I want to go back and reread his many wonderful posts -- so encouraging.
the first time i walked into a kingdom hall, i was about 15 years old.
i shook hands with a 12-year-old named quincy.
as time passed and we grew older, quincy hung out with us older j-dubs.
Thanks, Terry, for posting this.
Quincy -- his user name, lamallcool -- was a genuinely kind and respectful fellow. I appreciated his thoughtful comments on what I wrote.
I'm sorry, Terry, for your losing such a good friend. It's a mutual loss, to be sure.
instead of making a new thread for every little thing related to memorial 2017, i'm going to try to post here.
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and to start us off.... cart artwork for 2017 memorial invitations.
steve2:
Hi, there.
We've talked punctuation before, and the deal is that the pubs are printed in American English. I was a proofreader at Brooklyn Bethel.
I am not hurt that you received 4 likes and I received none regarding my similar but diametrically opposite comment.
So, then . . . is there no Oxford -- penultimate -- comma in La Nouvelle Zelande?!?!?
Your reply is most heartily anticipated. BTW, when visiting The Gold Coast, I did not employ the serial comma in my speech because I was dealing with severe misunderstanding of the Aussie spoken word and I had to let go of my usually necessary compulsions. Choose your battles . . . sigh. . . .
