This is a topic I've been struggling with for years and it was finally coming to a head with medical bills this month. If I were more than substitious, I'd think our friend was inspired. Money is a sore spot with me for sure and I appreciate this sermon a lot.
I just wanted to say I loved the sermon and it especially hit home with the idea of cheerful giving and resenting it from a place of scarcity. As an ex Jehovah’s Witness they actively discouraged me from seeking higher education to support my 4 year old son through we were barely making it. I left the church and religion and got my RN and my son and I lived so much better. I have retirement savings and my son graduated from college and has a family of his own now. But if I’d listened to them we’d probably still be living in subsidized housing and on food stamps because money is the root of all evil right? Later I realized all the church elders owned their own businesses or were quite rich telling me to stay poor. The audacity. The unmitigated gall. Later I also realized that they were hoping I would wed one of the older men in the Kingdom Hall and it’s easier to arrange if you have a broke desperate 18 year old single mom.
Very interested in this movement and will be following it closely! Writing hymns after leaving the church has been cathartic and i'm glad to see i'm not alone in that ritual. From one Exmo-Joe to another, Reason's Greetings.
Love this so much! Left a narcissist Mormon man and when I did my son has come out as trans. We all support him!
This is a topic I've been struggling with for years and it was finally coming to a head with medical bills this month. If I were more than substitious, I'd think our friend was inspired. Money is a sore spot with me for sure and I appreciate this sermon a lot.
Did an awesome job
more power to you you crazy exmos ! 😁🤘
I just wanted to say I loved the sermon and it especially hit home with the idea of cheerful giving and resenting it from a place of scarcity. As an ex Jehovah’s Witness they actively discouraged me from seeking higher education to support my 4 year old son through we were barely making it. I left the church and religion and got my RN and my son and I lived so much better. I have retirement savings and my son graduated from college and has a family of his own now. But if I’d listened to them we’d probably still be living in subsidized housing and on food stamps because money is the root of all evil right? Later I realized all the church elders owned their own businesses or were quite rich telling me to stay poor. The audacity. The unmitigated gall. Later I also realized that they were hoping I would wed one of the older men in the Kingdom Hall and it’s easier to arrange if you have a broke desperate 18 year old single mom.
Very interested in this movement and will be following it closely!
Writing hymns after leaving the church has been cathartic and i'm glad to see i'm not alone in that ritual.
From one Exmo-Joe to another, Reason's Greetings.
Dude! I'm listening now.
Sorry I missed the live.