easyreader1970	Re: Re: Its Thursday nite and...
	Easyreader:  not to hijack the thread, but how did your wife react to the announcement about the amalgamating of the book study, thus reducing meeting attendance times?  That should have been a huge tip off to her that many of the brothers just can't keep up the regimen.  Why not take that tack with her?  Tell her you may not have been vocal about it, but you too felt the stress of having so many meetings and are so glad the Gibbering Buddy has taken note of your exhaustion and 'lessened the burden'.  You have to say this in all sincerity, of course!  Then stick to your guns on the odd meeting night, and say you will not be COERCED.  You need to take care of your physical well being, as well as the spiritual and only you are in a position to judge when your body needs rest from the hectic 24/7 pace of today's world.  Tell her meetings need to be weekday mornings, if they are that important, not at the end of the day, when normal people are TIRED OUT from a day of work.  Jesus load is light! yada yada She was both infuriated and saddened at the same time. She was almost upset at the GB but then she realized she couldn't be. How could they do this? This was supposedly the oh-so-important meeting where we socialized and met with each other on an intimate basis, the cornerstone of our fellowship? This was the group that we would stick to when the Great Tribulation started (yeah, right). By Monday she was almost in tears. This actually made her more rabid about attending the remaining meetings. She didn't accept the "burden" story. She said "It's not a burden to me!" I tried to explain to her how difficult it is to get 3 kids ready after school on a Thursday night (after already having been Tuesday night) and she agreed that it was difficult. She didn't buy the "gas prices" explanation. I told her that they only used that as "an example" and it wasn't the sum of the reasons why they cancelled the book study. Anyway, in her mind she took the announcement to mean that the end is near(er). It's the only logical conclusion she can come up with as to why they would remove this ever important arrangement. I don't know what she will think in another 20 years. Probably the same thing. She is firmly on their hook. It would take mass corruption or conspiracy of the absolute worst kind by the Governing Body to make her lose faith in them. Yes, I said "in them" not "in Jehovah." er
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