| My wife's sister
recently died of a brain aneurysm. From the beginning the doctors were
up front with the family as to the gravity of the condition. They
couldn't give any hope for survival and the family watched her die over
a period of about a week.
The very real emotional pain
that my wife Marjorie* suffers through this is over the family
relationships that could have been but were not. We were in WCG nearly
30 years and as you well know they encouraged members to look to the
"church" as family rather than relatives. We couldn't
acknowledge birthdays, or other important holidays, and these things
estranged our relatives from ourselves. Once her dying sister slipped
into unconsciousness it was too late to make amends for the years of
severance.
You can only begin to imagine
the heavy sorrow at the memorial service, the pain of missing that many
years of closeness that could have been and should have been. That
serious error cannot be undone. It slips into Eternity and we must live
with it until we come to complete healing. The abusive and misleading
policies and doctrines of
Worldwide Church of
God has left a trail of pain, suffering and
death.
By Zach (former WCG
member)
July 18, 2003
*name changed
Poems/Free Verse &
Comfort in Music (comfort for the broken hearted; no audio)
Books: Spiritual Comfort
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