Are you a Busybody?

[RdJ]

3 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Hi, Really, kinda a "drive by" gossip? ???

Seems to me there are Biblical principles within Matthew 18 for handling perceived faults one sees or thinks they see in others. Plus a grand example within the accounts of David including  the encounter and conversation between David and Nathan; "You are the man!"

It's more just venting. I'm not in their church. I'm not their pastor nor elder. The church they're in apparently does nothing. I do nothing either. Vent and pray he repents and that she gets healed.

I do cut contact with him though. I'm not gonna slime as if I approve because then it's also my fault.

Edited May 11, 2024 by RdJ

[Neighbor]

54 minutes ago, RdJ said:

I'm not gonna slime as if I approve because then it's also my fault.

Fault?  Your fault? Hmmm, be glad perhaps not to have to  be walking a mile in his shoes.or then yet  to go  a second mile. 

My own wonderful grandfather, actually step-grand,  adopted my mother, her sisters and brothers,  six in all when his wife was killed in an auto accident while "out" with with my grandfather. He stepped in and married her, raised the six kids plus the child of one of them too when she was killed.

Then late in life my grandmother suffered stroke after stroke, 11 serious ones and was a bit of a heavy weight vegetable for 11 years.  And he my step grandfather stayed on year after year to care for her. Tending her every need.

He did meet a lady his age that also had a hard life. They became very close while my grandmother was still alive. When she died they married and lived happily for some time long into a late life.

The details of the lives of other individuals may not be what others may think they know it is.

 I cherish the memory of my step grandfather, think him to have been a most honorable man, as did everyone that ever got to know of him. Yet a few just would not accept that he was allowed of God to have a friend, a very close companion, and yes even a  "new" wife into his last years. I am glad I didn't have to walk in his shoes, but I am also glad to have been around him to learn how to handle such serious adversity as that which comes in life.

 

 

 

[Neighbor]

4 hours ago, PATrobas said:

I wish I had the temerity to do that.

You won't have to do it but once! After that those that like to see if they can get you to join in disparaging others will never approach with that gambit again.

[RdJ]

32 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Fault?  Your fault? Hmmm, be glad perhaps not to have to  be walking a mile in his shoes.or then yet  to go  a second mile. 

My own wonderful grandfather, actually step-grand,  adopted my mother, her sisters and brothers,  six in all when his wife was killed in an auto accident while "out" with with my grandfather. He stepped in and married her, raised the six kids plus the child of one of them too when she was killed.

Then late in life my grandmother suffered stroke after stroke, 11 serious ones and was a bit of a heavy weight vegetable for 11 years.  And he my step grandfather stayed on year after year to care for her. Tending her every need.

He did meet a lady his age that also had a hard life. They became very close while my grandmother was still alive. When she died they married and lived happily for some time long into a late life.

The details of the lives of other individuals may not be what others may think they know it is.

 I cherish the memory of my step grandfather, think him to have been a most honorable man, as did everyone that ever got to know of him. Yet a few just would not accept that he was allowed of God to have a friend, a very close companion, and yes even a  "new" wife into his last years. I am glad I didn't have to walk in his shoes, but I am also glad to have been around him to learn how to handle such serious adversity as that which comes in life.

He first cheated with her niece. She just forgets stuff. It's not that she understands nothing. She bikes to my mom alone. If I stay Facebook friends with him and like his stuff, it's like I say: go ahead and then Jesus comes back and he may miss it. My ex chatted with a woman so I thought God was fine with it that I had someone else when we broke up. It is not always sin. In my case it was. Do you think anyone warned? Nobody. Everybody in church slimed. Oh what a nice guy. You 2 should get married. God gave me a dream and threatened me with hell. I wish one person had been blunt and had warned me with hell. Would have saved me a lot of trouble.

Edited May 11, 2024 by RdJ