JW parents can be so funny. Who knows what they're going to think of L's letter.
They might get halfway through it, feel cut to their hearts and through tears call their daughter with appeals for her to come home immediately with hopes of a joyful reconciliation. Knowing JW parents like the ones she probably has, I don't see that as a likely scenario.
Instead, I see them as having their hearts weighed down even more than they already were as they realize how far gone their daughter is, how far she's separated herself from their loving god Jehovah, how it's most likely that she really is "lost" forever, destined to be destroyed by Jehovah's own hand at the impending war of Armageddon. In this scenario, maybe their love for her will move them to reach out to do something to help her -- to make one last effort to snatch her from everlasting destruction.
JW parents who willingly turn their backs on their own children (like mine did for thirty years) are a different breed. That said, L probably shouldn't put too much hope in this letter having a positive affect. But you never know. Like I said, JW parents are funny.
One thing the letter *will* do is to help important ideas coalesce in L's own mind, confirming that she's made the right decision about the religion and that moving on to a better life, albeit without the love and support of her parents, is the absolute right thing to do.
They might get halfway through it, feel cut to their hearts and through tears call their daughter with appeals for her to come home immediately with hopes of a joyful reconciliation. Knowing JW parents like the ones she probably has, I don't see that as a likely scenario.
Instead, I see them as having their hearts weighed down even more than they already were as they realize how far gone their daughter is, how far she's separated herself from their loving god Jehovah, how it's most likely that she really is "lost" forever, destined to be destroyed by Jehovah's own hand at the impending war of Armageddon. In this scenario, maybe their love for her will move them to reach out to do something to help her -- to make one last effort to snatch her from everlasting destruction.
JW parents who willingly turn their backs on their own children (like mine did for thirty years) are a different breed. That said, L probably shouldn't put too much hope in this letter having a positive affect. But you never know. Like I said, JW parents are funny.
One thing the letter *will* do is to help important ideas coalesce in L's own mind, confirming that she's made the right decision about the religion and that moving on to a better life, albeit without the love and support of her parents, is the absolute right thing to do.