LDSToronto wrote: Thanks to everyone who let me break their backs with my earlier indignation. You are good people.
H.
Glad to be of help and happy to see that a conversation will be forthcoming. Good luck.
Your advice sucked. I'm talking about everyone else.
H.
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LDSToronto wrote:Update to all who have shared their sympathy and good advice:
The WML will be visiting me after I return from California, so sometime in mid February. He and I will have a man-to-man talk, in person, at my house.
I've still written a letter, but have done so for catharsis. Doubt I will send it. I thought about things a bit, and yes, I believe every word my kids said. But, I've factored in a couple of things:
1. If I raise holy hell, my kids will be centred out for attention that they don't really want, even if that attention is heart-felt mea-culpa's. My eldest son expressed he wanted to remain low-key.
2. About 4 years ago, this WML forgave my best friend a trespass of a much more grievous nature. When I look into my heart, it is hard to justify carrying out a vendetta against this guy given his own forgiving ways.
So he and I will have a pleasant chat so he can really understand why I left, and why I was concerned about his words from the pulpit.
I know, far from the whirling dervish that I was going to unleash, and not as sensational. But I think this is the best way forward.
Thanks to everyone who let me break their backs with my earlier indignation. You are good people.
LDSToronto wrote: Your advice sucked. I'm talking about everyone else.
H.
If you say so, but you are following it. You are having a conversation right? And wasn't that my advice to you? To cool off and have a talk? But it is okay...no problem even though I did take some heat for it. if I remember correctly most everyone here was out for blood.
Now here is what is going to happen with your conversation: he will apologize, say that he did not mean to hurt you and he will tell you that you and your wife are missed. And he will mean it.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
To hell with this plan of action, you need to saddle up and do what Little Bill did to English Bob. This forgiveness crap is for the birds in the New Testament, you need to open up the holy heavens and pour your wrath out like God's own sweet summer rain.