Two telling interactions
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:25 pm
1. Spouseman received email from seminary president, wanting our son's contact info. "His friends miss him at seminary." Spouseman replied that son might be willing to talk to her if it's about a real friendship, but if it's just to get him to come to seminary, it would not be welcome. He did not share contact info.
Response: Thank you for the information.
2. Spouseman received a text from MIL exhorting him to return to church activity and access the atonement and stop shunning his family. He responded that we are happy, following God's will for our family, and that his brothers who send aggressive hateful messages to him about being an apostate probably need her encouragement to be decent human beings more than he does.
Response: I know that you think you're on a good path....
This is all so predictable isn't it? We can't know or decide what's best for ourselves. We can't have authority to make our own decisions. We certainly can't expect a "no" to be respected. We've told seminary to back off, so they switch the approach to a student instead of a teacher instead of a stake leader.
Response: Thank you for the information.
2. Spouseman received a text from MIL exhorting him to return to church activity and access the atonement and stop shunning his family. He responded that we are happy, following God's will for our family, and that his brothers who send aggressive hateful messages to him about being an apostate probably need her encouragement to be decent human beings more than he does.
Response: I know that you think you're on a good path....
This is all so predictable isn't it? We can't know or decide what's best for ourselves. We can't have authority to make our own decisions. We certainly can't expect a "no" to be respected. We've told seminary to back off, so they switch the approach to a student instead of a teacher instead of a stake leader.
