What a fine, loving and realistic brother you are for your sister. Sadly the ones that receive the most love and help can at times be so blind to who really are there to stand by them. The only comfort is that you and your wife, mum etc know that you are doing your best with only good intentions.
Love
Chicken Little
i am posting to ask this group of wonderful people to help my friend who is with me now.
we are discussing her serious doubts and the barriers she is facing as the wife of an elder with small children.
she is desperately looking for help to pull away without causing dissention in her otherwise very good marriage.
i am posting to ask this group of wonderful people to help my friend who is with me now.
we are discussing her serious doubts and the barriers she is facing as the wife of an elder with small children.
she is desperately looking for help to pull away without causing dissention in her otherwise very good marriage.
first of all let me say that i choked!
i choked because i told myself if they came back that i would have a field day!
didn't happen.
Same thing happened to me on Saturday, two men, from a congregation in our area, they knew we did not go to meetings but said they were out in service and would not just go by without calling. I was very kind and polite, told them we were just fine and explained a little of the trauma we have had with our son being injured in Afghan. They said we were always welcome at the meetings and I said I knew that was the case. I told them we never discuss our reasons for not attending with anyone and would not do so in the future. The said they would pop by another time and I was very kind and said they were welcome but that we are just fine and happy as we are. I felt no panic, no need to tell them about their religion, no sense of anger ...nothing. Just like a worldly person who gets called on, on a Saturday morning. Quite funny though because my husband was downstairs marking school papers and he had come up to see who it was, he had on a black tshirt with a huge devil head and underneath it says: God is busy, can I help you? I laughed so much thinking about how they would have responded if he had anwsered the door, former elder and speaker at district conventions etc. Funny.
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Thank you for writing, what must have been painful and sad to write. Thinking of you and your family and so sorry for your loss.
It should have been different.
Love
Chicken little
our friend, oompa, has passed away.
just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.
it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.
DEAR OOMPA, I WILL MISS YOU.
TEARS AND SORROW.
CHICKEN LITTLE.
i don't seem to be making myself clear these days.
.
there has been so many "dislikes" on sparlock clips i received a message from youtube.. i asked for people to "like" the videos instead of "dislike" because this will also push the videos to the top of searches and hopefully get more views especially for jws searching from it .. i am now getting abuse.. please can people "like" the clips so the balance between like and dislike gets reversed.. ty x.
I thought I was helping by pressing dislike, sorry.
sitting in the local cafe enjoying a coffee this morning when the witnessing group showed up.. before i had a chance to escape i was sharing my table with 2 'sisters'.
one was my best friend for years until i stopped going to meetings.
(such conditional friendships).. before i knew it i was being bombarded with questions like how i was going spiritually.
I usually control the conversation (jep I hog it!) by telling them about how busy I am and how good life is, I talk about my kids (not Jws anymore) and how happy we are even though we have been through an awful lot of trauma this last year (son injured in Afghanistan). I do not give them a chance to preach. When they say, as they always do; we miss you, then I reach out and touch their arm and look them in they eye and say, thank you so much, it is nice to be missed, but I am really very happy so do not worry. It works everytime. They go away looking completely confused as they did not get to make me feel miserable, they are the ones feeling odd after talking to me. Try it.
Love Chicken little
tomorrow the 22nd i will be 85 years old .
good wishes only please,remember if you say something nasty i will cry.
and my mum told me it is a sin to cry on your birthday .
Hope I am not too late, Happy Birthday Grace, enjoy your day and remember all the people thinking of you. You are only as old as you feel in your mind.
Much love
Chicken little
tinker told me about this documentary and i finally got around to watching it.
i thought it was great.
i'm wondering if anyone else has seen it.
Dear Jamie, thank you so much, it was a wonderful documentary, very inspiring.
