A Personal Experience.
Thank You for allowing me to join your wonderful group. This is a
painful journey. I got involved with a charismatic JW, for about 1 year
now. This gal had the ability to draw you in on every level. I just
thought wow maybe she has some spirituality, would sure be nice to be friends, since not too many people are really interested in God.
Being an
out door
type person, we would hike, ride bikes, and in the summer enjoy the
beach,
etc, every so often we would go to lunch. I found it so unusual at
the
time, she would invite her JW friends to come with. I never went
anywhere
without 2-3 of them in tow. They too were "nice".
I attended 3
meetings
at the Kingdom Hall, and 2 Bible studies. Not sure why I continued
on
with them, no one ever talked about anything really, there was no
discussion on anything, I tried to bring up subjects, mainly because
I was
bored, but no discussion.
I was invited to the Bible Study, I
thought
wow, I haven't read the Bible in a long time, wonder if I could
still
find, Matthew, Mark Luke or John!! Well no discussion there either,
robotic reading, I was so confused, I thought I enjoyed their
company, but
geeze something was weird.
Then along the journey, when I started
to
drift, I got the "walk right past you, and not say a word". I took
that
very hard, wondered what had I done, really freaked me out, after
all the
time we had spent as supposedly "friends", but being in denial, I
just
figured it was me. So I continued to try to be friends and went to
another meeting, this pleased her; I thought I was being nice, since
this
meant so much to this person.
I kept getting "jacked" around for
most of
the year emotionally and finally now, I will make the break. I
found your
wonderful site, and it has helped. Very few people have that
special
something that makes them apart from others, and it is called "charisma",
this gal has it, and I bit the bait.
I hope it will help others to
understand and not take things personally like I did, I hope some day my " friend" will know God personally... all is in his hands...
Thanks to God, I am healing,
what a
ride, and the saying "Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing" rings
true for
me. Thank You again!!
Anonymous
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