if y-all check the time stamp on a lot of my posts you will see i post very early and rather late in the day.
i only need four to five hours of sleep unless i'm not feeling well or i really busted my butt working on a remodel.
even when i am on holiday i like to get up early and do something!
Usually I function so much better if I have at least six hours of straight sleep. It doesn't always work out that way though, even when I get to bed at a regular time. As one gets older, sleep is often broken by trips to the lavatory. Uninterrputed sleep probably happens four hours at the most. Every now and again, I will sleep the entire night through, and feel absolutely glorious in the AM. Those of you who sleep soundly all night long are truly blessed!
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that you are reading a lot more since exiting the borg?.
i've had as many as five books on the go all at once - all of a spiritual nature.
i'm currently reading the wheel of life and death by philip kapleau.. claire takes a book to bed with her every night (something i can't do - i just can't read in bed).. some of you might like fiction or biographies, etc., but i love to read anything on buddhism (although one of my books is by a christian cleric).
I always loved to read from my youth on up. For so long, there was always so much JW literature to read that I had little time to explore elsewhere. We were forbidden to read many subjects that interested me.
Now I am like a sponge!
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ozzie had a small accident today - been in hospital - unable to join today.
mrs ozzie
I am so very sorry to learn of this. I hope it isn't anything too serious, that he will get the care he needs and be back on his feet in no time.
Keep us posted here. Thanks.
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dear all,.
i've not been posting for some time as my dear husband has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
we are awaiting further tests and are terrified.
I don't have any first-hand information on this type of cancer iin my family. Long after the fact, word was that there have been a couple men on my job who had this, were treated for it, and are continuing to work. Men don't openly discuss this type of cancer it seems. Women discuss everything.
It appears that it is treatable and the success for getting rid of it is very high. I wish you and your husband best wishes in dealing with this!
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this morning i went to a meeting at our church.
someone commented that we should consider a hispanic outreach, and a lady i know, verdelle, said, "do you know which group is evangelising the hispanics like crazy around here?
" no one answered, so she told us: "the jehovah?s witnesses.
What a wonderful experience you related to us here. Many times we cross paths with individuals and we have no clue as to how we have affected them. If we can remember how other's have affected us, then perhaps we can see the other side of the coin. Sometimes we don't ever see that person again and we never get to tell them what we feel, or how they touched our heart.
Many times people are hurting so badly but are so afraid to step outside of their "emotional comfort zone". No matter how miserable they are, they keep it all inside and it ruins them and brings them down. Now you know that you have helped this woman in her time of great need.
This is something you can always carry in your heart. As human beings we have so much to give. Once we learn how to love ourselves, reaching out to others seems very natural. Love and compassion is a divine gift we sometimes forget how to use.
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well, some of you may have read my thread under the relationships topic that i am ending my three year relationship with my live-in because of his drugging and partying.
i want to share some memories of happier times i had before i met this guy..............just feeling like walking down memory lane tonite...........so bear with me, and maybe enjoy seeing into my soul a little.......................this picture is when i was dating a guy with 3 kids..................this is a picture of his youngest and middle girls in my hot tub here at the apartment complex............
Ah, reflecting on good times is always positive. I believe that good can be found, even when we have faced great pain and heartache along the way. I remember my first husband, who had alcohol and addiction problems, and I married him when he wasn't that way, and watched him fade into a very miserable, unhappy person that I couldn't reach. Yet, he had such love deep inside him for all living creatures, the animals of the forest and even insects. He just couldn't deal with "man" in this world. His unhappiness, and his inability to rise above his pain caused him to take his own life. He had such a profound affect on my life. He took my virginity, and planted a seed in me that gave us a wonderful son. We were married fourteen years. It was a maricle this child was ever born, because doctors told me that I would probably never conceive again. My son is my joy now as I enter middle age.
Treasure your moments, but don't let them bring you down. We grow and we learn, sometimes through our tears we see the light at the end of the tunnel. Live well.
Love,
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as one would struggle to free oneself from a twisted, tangle briar patch, its sharp thorns inflicting pain and suffering with every attempt to escape from the gnarled prison ---- so i struggled to free myself from the watchtower's society's twisted, tangled thinking patterns and doctrines, their threats, punishments, and implanted phobias inflicting pain and suffering with every attempt to escape from their convoluted psychological prison.. as stinging wounds from thornpricks heal, and those from penetrating lacerations produce scars that remain, so heals the emotional pain caused by my involvement with jehovah's witnesses -- though the scars may long be with me.. as roses rising above tangled vines, the blossoming of life --- the growth to development of one's full potential -- can occur when one is finally freed of the oppression of the watchtower society's organization of jehovah's witnesses.. from diane wilson, awakening of a jehovah's witness,escape from the watchtower society.p.277.
blueblades
Blueblades: Diane's book was the second "biography" of a former JW that I read after CC. I was so overwhelmed with her style of writing, her story and the accuracy of her information. It was awesome to read her experiences and to see how her life mirrored my own on many levels.
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ok, prince is coming to our town on his latest tour.
the ads all say that this is the last time that he'll play his "old songs".
well, some of those "old songs" (which i do like) are not very witness-like at all, as you may know.
People change. Prince is trying to find his way and I hope he does. Some people find that a cult or a dogmatic religion gives them the necessary self-discipline that they ordinarily can't manage by themselves. Many who have been deep in the industry knows how it really can destroy you if you don't manage yourself.
He is very talented and obviously is trying to "fix" himself. There have been others like him before. Everything in life serves a purpose. We take the good and leave the rest. He is fulfilling his soul's journey.
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i?ve been researching my ancestry in order to acquire my cherokee certificate of degree on indian blood/tribal membership.
in my research i discovered my great-grandfather x6 is henry d. (sequoia) gist, who, ?developed original cherokee indian alphabet?.
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=get&db=:a37877&id=i0171
What an exciting adventure. I too, have Cherokee blood in my veins. My grandmother's mother was pure and died in Georgia about the time of the "walk".
People in my family did not seem to be proud of this heritage and never wished to discuss it whenever inquiries were brought up during my youth. Now they are dead and gone, and there is little to piece together. I hope you will be successful in your attempts to gain membership. It is definitely a very tight clan. I am very proud of my heritage.
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i was always lead to believe my family came to america from canada in 1926. both my mothers and my fathers families are of french decent.
it turns out only my mothers side came from there.
my father, who i only know casually, (parents were divorced when i was three and mom remarried when i was five), sent me a history of his side of the family.. turns out his side has been here since at least 1775, (new england)!
This is the type of stuff that sometimes comes out when you decide to "find yourself". Many of us decide to do this when we get a certain age, or after we remove ourselves from a cult or dogmatic belief system. We try to find out as much as possible about ourselves, and we do this by many avenues of self-discovery. Family history is one place to begin.
Aren't you glad that you finally learned the truth? Families do tend to sweep things away in the closet and they say they do it to "protect" offspring. We deserve to know the truths that have been hidden.
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