Posted by ros [ros] on April 04, 1999 at 10:36:01 {th2VaRoznYdmhhsMJ.h27/SY5I9NtE}:
In Reply to: Missing the Cong. posted by jimmyjames on April 03, 1999 at 22:08:16:
Perfectly normal to feel that way, Jimmyjames. You don't stop loving people because of separation.
Most people have fond memories of the people they grew up with--even if it was in hard times. I know people who grew up coming out of the
"great depression" of the 1940s; some of the "Grapes of Wrath" migrants to California from the Oklahoma "dust bowl." Hard as those people had it, and as much better has life may be for them now, they still like to eat cornbread and milk
ever now and then and reflect fondly on "how hard we had it then" in their communal striving, grappling as under-paid fruit-pickers and lettuce packers to survive. People tend to remember the good in the worst of times.
But when you get
feeling that way, go back to a meeting at the Kingdom Hall, and while you're sitting through a boring Watchtower study, watching the lock and fidgetting as the meeting drones on and goes 10 minutes overtime, it will bring back to mind the
way it really was. :)
Blessings,
Ros