I was coming
out of Sam’s Club and I bumped into an elderly lady, probably late 70s early
80s.
(I wasn’t about to ask a lady what her age is.) One of the workers was
pushing a cart full of rib-eye steaks. She must have had about 40 steaks. That’s
a lot of $$$$. I walked with her to the car and WTF---she’s driving a Lexus IS
350 F SPORT. Aren’t grandmas supposed to be driving some type of 4 door Grey-Buick
Sedan?
As it turns
out she bought her grand-kid this car. We started taking and she tells me she
lives in Florida, has another home in Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County and one
of her great grand Kids or grandkid, don’t remember what she said, lives in my
area, so she came to visit him.
She starts
asking me questions and the subject of my divorce, the JWs, the WT, Apostate, blah,
blah, blah comes up.
She says, “I
know those people, they’re the ones that go door to door saying the world is
going to end, right?” I say, “Yep”
She says; “You
know, I lost one of my best friends in school to those people. We both had
plans to go to school and be somebody. Back then it wasn’t easy for girls to go
to a University, but we were rebels. Then she got involved with those people
and she didn’t want to do anything anymore. She even gave up birthdays and
Christmas, can you imagine that.
She continues; "So when I got
married the first time at 18 and then divorced before 20, she convinced me to go to her church because according to
her; “All the Good Men” were there. So I went to check it out, and all the boys
I met in her church, were kind of weird. None of them had any ambition to be someone in the
world and make a difference. They just wanted to go preaching and do odd part time jobs.
So I told my friend, NO WAY. I tried to convince her to come with me and attend
school and see if we could become nurses, perhaps even doctors, what the hell.
But she decline. She was seeing some young fellow in her church.
The next
time I saw her was about 10 years later. I had married again to a young boy
who always wanted to be a surgeon and he's dream was starting to pan out. I already had a couple of kids. She on the other hand, had married that
fellow, had 3 kids and gotten divorced.
She still
tried to encourage me to go back to her church and she wanted to study the Bible
with me. I said NO WAY. So we left it at that and didn’t see each other for
about another 20 years. This time someone knocked at my door and when I opened the
door, it was her and her new husband. They were soliciting landscape services. I
invited them in but only she stayed and her husband took off. You could tell
she had- had a hard life. She was probably in her 50s by now.
Would you
believe she still invited me to her church, and she still wanted to study the
Bible with me? I asked her, “Sweetie, do you realize your life is almost over
and you still believe the end of the world is coming? She looked at me with
these hypnotic eyes and said, “I have faith the end is coming in my lifetime.”
I knew then
she was in a cult.
This nice elderly lady
told me her husband had passed away 10 years ago. He was a surgeon, made
lots of money, and was a good investor. She said he left her with so much
money, that she could live her life over about 5 times and not have to worry
about a thing. She said she is leaving it all to her kids and grand-kids and great grand-kids. She
said she had lived a very good life, had a great loving husband, great kids
that have great careers, and great grand-kids with good futures ahead of them.
I was thinking, what a
difference your life will be if you NEVER LET THE WATCHTOWER INTO YOUR LIFE.
It makes all the difference
not only for yourself, but for your spouse, for your children, for your grand-kids, and even your great grand-kids.