I've got a lot of comments but only got three hours' sleep last night. I'll comment when I get my thoughts together.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pauline Smith Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: feeling left out Hello, I know all about the left-out feeling. Incidents like these are the reason why I am not motivated to attend church regularly. At the last church I attended, several people would say hello, which is a victory intself. In omst other things, they had my relatives that attended the church deal with me. Some of the people would watch out for my transportation but that's about it. There was a big split in that church earlier this year. As a result, my relatives do not attend there anymore. I will only go to churches where I already know somebody. I used to say when I was in school that putting up with people's treatment because of being different was enough five days a week. I like my weekends to relax and be me without all the pressure. I still feel that way. I am sorry you are feeling left out. I hope things will get better. On 7/20/08, trinh martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > do anyone here feel sometimes they are left out of the loop? > > i go to a church that i have attnded on and off since i was a > teenager. i left when i was about 18 to attend college, but i still > always came to see them on my vacations. anwya, sicne we moved back > to live with my parents, i have been attending here for nearly a year. > one would think that one would feel more family like with the church. > i don't know how to explain this... we have met a few good folks from > the church and we do things from time to time with them if they call > and ask if we woudl like to come along for this or that. sometimes, i > have asked such and such to take me to the store, and we have a great > time. my thing is feeling more excepted with the church. for > instance, they have baby showers, weddings showers and never ask if i > want to come along. today, they had a 1 month old baby come to the > church. i had to make several hints and finally had to just come out > and ask if the baby was still around and could i hold him. it is a > long story, but first the pastor's wife asked if i had held the baby > since he was so small and she figured i would be reminded of philip > when he was a baby. anyway, she told the grandma of the baby that she > would hold anna-lynn so i could hold the baby. Well, vicky walked > with me to the church kitchen, but still never handed the baby over > and after about 20 mins, i asked her about the baby. she had said at > first before we went off to the kitchen that john, her son was in a > hurry to go home, but when i got to the kitchen, he was just sitting > around. vicki handed the baby to another lady. anyway, that was one > way i felt left out today. later, the women were talking about a > wedding shower that is to take place this coming saturday. no one > asked me anything about coming etc. this has happened for baby showers > as well. > > got to go take care of anna-lynn. > mabye this is all just trivial. > > > may we strive to do the will of god in all we do in our lives martin > family may we strive to do the will of god in all we do in our lives > martin family > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
