Again

[jane]

Last week I was pretty stressed out....short, impatient, and wanting to control everyone in my house...."Get your jobs done....keep the house clean...get to where you are supposed to be!"


I knew why. I just didn't WANT to deal with the truth.


One day while in my front yard, an old friend drove by....yup from the church we left.........

and as I type this I get angry.......and almost want to stop because I don't want to be angry ANYMORE.


She was driving down my road- get this- because she had a word from God that she was going to own a BIG home with her husband and people would be gathering in her kitchen and yard.......blah blah blah blah blah....

I said sarcastically but she missed the sarcasm, "don't forget to invite me..." he he he he he....last place I would want to be....:eek:

So I REALLY wanted to ask her if the same prophet who prophecised over my friend who would give birth to her own baby but died of ovarian cancer..was the one who gave her the prophecy.... better not move into a house that he prophecizes over you....might COLLAPSE ON YOUR HEADS WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP.

but I really couldn't get a word in edge wise....she was going on and on about ALL THE FREAKING MINISTRIES THAT SHE WAS DOING............. like she was God's gift....or something.

She actually put her nose down at our home....

and this is a woman who can't keep a job....and well, I am not going to pull her down with her long list of inadequacies...it would only make me feel better to do so.....

BUT I AM ANGRY and don't want to deal with the crap.

She looked patronizingly at me and said, "so, you don't think you'll ever come back ????"

STARTING TALKING ABOUT>>>>"you can't leave a church to run away from problems when it is you.....YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOU, YOU WILL FOLLOW YOURSELF!!!!"

YEAH LADY- BUT I CAN RUN FROM YOU HIGHSCHOOL DROP OUT BUT THINKS YOU'RE MORE EDUCATED THAN A PSYCHIATRIST WITH YOUR NICKLE AND DIME ONE LINE THERAPY AND THE FALSE PROPHETS AND LYING STEALING PASTORS............YEAH I CAN RUN LIKE HELL FROM ALL YOU NUTS, I CAN, I CAN.!

AND THE REAL TICKER........... She runs the recovery programs.....for AA etc.. in Christ's name.....well one of her groups is for battered women and she thinks I SHOULD COME!!!!!!!!!!!

MY HUSBAND HAS NEVER NEVER NEVER HIT ME.......... (he'd be knocked out on the floor by me for thinking it :D )..... HE IS MY BEST FRIEND AND WE HAVE A GREAT FRIENDSHIP!

WHAT THE HECK?????

So, my educated guess is that we are now blackballed and my husband is a WIFE BEATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YUP. REALLY MAD. REALLY REALLY MAD.:mad: :mad: ( THEY NEED TO GET AN ICON WITH A GUY PUNCHING IN THE AIR!)

My son graduated with honors, is doing fantastic....we got a foster son- our dream.....are kids are doing great; our house getting fixed....got a great new job this past year; A BRAND NEW CAR....

and THEY STILL SEE US WITH INSANE EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! !!!!!!!!


Anyone got a baseball bat???? I'm thinking of helping the church look better...maybe some stain glass windows instead of the ones there now...I'll crunch them up for them so they can decorate them with color.....




LOVE JANE

[ex-shep]

[QUOTE=jane;37686]Last week I was pretty stressed out....short, impatient, and wanting to control everyone in my house...."Get your jobs done....keep the house clean...get to where you are supposed to be!"


Sounds like they must have graduated from the bible school the next state over. I can deal with boasting in what the Lord has done in my life, but rubbing it in, that is cruel. No doubt about it, the pentecostal church ladies are enough to make one want to be a card carrying atheist. I just love the Christian brattism of "I am SO Blessed!" [Audience: How Blessed are YOU]

I find such attitudes this church lady espouses tantamount to giving rape victim a subscription to magazine kept behind the counter. That is how disgusting it feels. I am sorry you had to be subjected to such cruelty. :(

[leelees]

Anyone got a baseball bat???? I'm thinking of helping the church look better...maybe some stain glass windows instead of the ones there now...I'll crunch them up for them so they can decorate them with color.....



ahh see thats where im going wrong...im planning all out nuclear weapons of mass distruction, you just need a baseball bat....be more subtle Lee, more subtle! :o

[ex-shep]

ahh see thats where im going wrong...im planning all out nuclear weapons of mass distruction, you just need a baseball bat....be more subtle Lee, more subtle! :o

The odd thing for me I was never angry at the bible school. It took me sometime that I was angry at Tammy for getting me into the mess in the first place. There was definitely a period in grieving where a picture of her on a dart board looked most appealing. I wanted to tear her limb for limb. It was a phase I had to go through. Of course I realize that it was really nobody's fault. We were both in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was a fun period of recovery. That was for sure.

[Jerry]

THEY STILL SEE US WITH INSANE EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hmmmmmmmm,,,,,guess they aren't looking through my glasses ;)

[Voyager]

Jane,

I truly relate with the anger you are dealing with. Trust me, in time it will subside. To be honest, I feel more sorry for the people in my former church than I feel anger towards them now. There was a day when I was so mad at them that I almost stormed into a church meeting to tell them all off. But now I see them as blind fools being led by a blind cult leader.

Anymore when I see people like that, I straight up tell them how duped they are. It doesn't pay to be Mr. Nice Guy to them - they will just look down on you anyway. If you tell them they are in a cult, maybe it will kickstart their brain into thinking for themselves again?

:cool:

[Jo Jo]

My gosh, I'm just so impressed you listened to her. If someone from my old church started sharing about a prophesy I would just start going "no no no NO don't start that crap with ME!" I really think I would loose it. They really would think I was crazy! HA! There is no way I could bring my self to listen to that arrogant 'god told me' stuff right now. My brain WOULD pop!

I think you did brilliantly... and venting here is just the thing. Get that bat baby and swing.... batter batter batter.... SWINGGGGGGGG!!!!!!