Wasted Years
I get a feeling of sickness, combined with anger, when I think about the "Bible Story" books (that I read from daily to my children); the Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong, Vol. I & II (that I didn't know was filled with lies); The Good News magazines I poured over to build "character"; all the Bible Correspondence lessons I studied (looking up every Scripture and typing them down); all The Worldwide Newses I read and saved; all the booklets I organized in their own separate folder according to their subject.
Things I treasured as "precious jewels," "diamonds of truth"--nothing but the off scouring from a pile of garbage, worthless in the sight of God and man! The wasting of my life and the life of my family when I thought I was doing it all for God! Empty, useless and futile! Years down the drain…and no way to reclaim them. Forsaken by those left in the system, and not understood by Christians in other churches. We hurt alone; yet try to go on. Isolated in our little world as we vainly attempt to patch our life together again.
By D. W.
Exit & Support Network™
1997
"...put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me." ~ Psalm 56: 8-9
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