Meet Marjo from Finland
A little bit of her life and journey below.
Go here for more of her story :
http://askjacqueline.life/staying-strong-amidst-difficulties/
Ladies Talking
Hello and Welcome!
My name is Marjo and I am married and we have 3 children together.
I am from Finland and my native language is Finnish.
I was baptized in 2002 and I left from Jehovah Witnesses in 2008.
The reason why I left was that I didn't get support from the congregation when it was needed.
My mother was also a Witness, but she left first. I was very alone in those moments.
When the elder told me that my mother is no longer a Witness
I began to cry. That was the only moment when someone was there for me.
No one ever asked me after that how I was, or have I got over this.
Not even elders didn't come to see me and ask how I was doing after this.
That is when I began to fade away. Then I met my husband in the same job.
Then leaving from Witnesses was easy.
Then I just e-mailed to one elder that I don't want to be a Witness anymore.
There is little of my history from Witness times. I also couldn't stand that dress code.
Now I follow Yeshua only and read the Bible.
I love different cultures and languages. So it is nice to meet new people from all over the world.
Maybe we can learn something from each other 🙂
Thank you Jacqueline. I listened to some of joel this morning with coffee. I appreciate all of your suggestions. 🙂
Denise what a day it has been for me. I enjoyed our brief texting this morning and I love your positive attitude about getting on with your life. LLC vs Corporation. I chose to incorporate because the risk was there because of my industry and people touching people and I had a big company. So thinking of your financial welfare is just a normal, natural encouraging response, glad to see you thinking about finishing your education or just get certified with what you have in degrees already.
I am not much help in that area because I am retired now and brain cells have probably forgotten how I did what I did with touring for those years with entertainers and running a company. This is the company I still run now from home. I place people at events http://www.stressbustersinc.org maybe go look at the model and it can give you an idea on how to build a mobile company.
I have about 2 more hours of painting and I am done. Family will arrive Friday so I will just enjoy them.
Jacqueline which Joel Osteen sermon did you listen to?
I had on my Bluetooth so I didn’t look at it as it played numerous ones. The man will have you praising God and being glad to be alive. He tells you about all the times God helped people when they thought he wasn’t there. He pulls out the positive things in life and show you how you can be happy within yourself. Pick any sermon that he has and you will be uplifted. Now you can take that to the bank and cash it.lol
Then you can listen to David Jeremiah another loving man who gets in that Bible. Is he a prophecy preacher? No. He is just simply what God clearly says in the Bible. Right now you don’t need to be pulled into another religious system. You need friends to help you walk thru this and God has put these men out there according to Daniel the knowledge moves fast over the internet, so don’t worry like Daniel did. They and we are here to help until you stand on your own two feet and take on wings and run!Remember make EVERYTHING A MATTER OF PRAYER TO OUR GOD OF ALL EXISTING THINGS.
Jacqueline when you mentioned sound records, maybe we could make the ones that are not too horrible for children ears as jw.rg has. I personally think that things like Armageddon and other things that are not good to hear under 18 years old I think. When children are children they need to learn basics only as Bible say milk.
thank you Marjo and Jackueline. I enjoyed seeing your beautiful children Marjo. I am curious as to why my camera would not work as it was on. Hopefully next time.
Marjo, Denise and Una, what a marvelous cultural opportunity for your children to be able to say hello to each other with you in the room. Often our children are affected when you leave a religion. I think there is at least 11 among all three of you. I am just saying use this network for your benefit. Say when you have booked it and it is yours.
Marjo, I have to give you admin privilege to be able to open the room and practice the layouts and how to post notes and stuff so I will email you.
Denise, I just listened to a sermon by Joel Osteen tonight as I am still painting and cleaning, and thought how you would be encouraged.
You may have noticed we are here to help you get thru distress in your life and just like there are different doctors for special illnesses, God has allowed Ministers to specialize. The ones we have been associated with deals a lot with prophecy and the preeminence of the 144,000. We don’t push agendas here but point you to those and any material that helps you. There is something on here for everybody. Greg is writing and publishing daily almost. So I thought I would explain the difference in this website and those run by a particular denomination. We just point you to Christ wherever the Truth you need to hear is.
Repeat”and this too shall pass”, for God says he will never forsake you and Jehovah God Does Not Lie Ever.Pray with your babies and all of you listen to some bible stories. My book of bible stories on tape is good but the stories on jw.org can be scary and too intense for children. Take care
I enjoyed that too, it was very pleasant moment. My family does know what I’m doing on this site. It was very nice to talk with you Denise 🙂 I could arrange some time in a week so I could speak with you often when ever I can 🙂 Take care of yourself
Denise this is a link to the bottom of each page where you will find some of the videos I mentioned.
They are from many perspectives, not just a denomination but the Bible.
Go here or at the bottom of every page.
http://askjacqueline.life/#
Don’t buy any books etc. But you can go on YouTube and look up each of their names for more study. Now Joel Osteen is a prosperity preacher. If you want to get in an uplifted mood and praise nothing but God, he will take you there.
David Jeremiah is another good one. All of these men have a different aspect of Scripture.
There is to me no such thing as “We got the Truth”. There is truth and error in all of the Christian religions including all I have been associated with. They often just make up phrases unique to them and not even in the Bible and make a doctrine even off one scripture.
So you choose what you want to hear at each point in your life. Love you.
Marjo and Denise, I enjoyed Marjo’s first “Small talk and Stuff”. It was 7 pm Finland’s time, 11 am Chicago (CST) and 9 am (MT).
We saw and got to met Marjo’s children and baby. We also saw a husband in the background, he thought he was invisible but we saw.
Denise, I will tell our technical director Kent what your problem was with the camera and let him come on and tell you what to do. That way Marjo and your children can see each other from Finland to California. Una children will be able to come on and meet them also. I enjoyed this so much. Greg probably will tell us about the “Man to Man” session last night, waiting on it.
7 pm is fine for me, I will talk with you then 🙂
So I will open up for you guys and walk away. I am CST, Chicago Marjo. So I will find my time and open up 30min before you are due so you can get in.
So Marjo it is 12 noon my time and I will open up about 11:30 am
Ok marjo, is 7 pm your time ok? Or do you prefer earlier?
Denise Sunday would be great 🙂
Hi marjo, this is denise. So you are about 10 hours ahead of me. Maybe if it works out we can talk sunday? 8 or 9 am here should make it 6 or 7pm where you are. If this weekend doesnt work maybe next. 🙂
Hello Denise
Weekends are better for me. In a week there is so much things to do. Im 8 hours ahead of Chicago time. Im still learning time difference. Before I said mistakenly 7 hours. I use World clock widget app to see the time.
Hello Marjo, Jackueline said we need to talk :). My name is denise. ive been on under a different name, but had to change it. I read your story. I think I need to tell you mine. I just need someone to talk to. I live in California and can come on the BBB when it is good for you.
Thank you! I will watch it when I can
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/25/17393894/gdpr-news-websites-down-europe
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/28/17172548/gdpr-compliance-requirements-privacy-notice
https://econsultancy.com/gdpr-which-websites-are-blocking-visitors-from-the-eu-2/
There is few links, but you can google more with this:
EU is going to shut down websites
Marjo this is how to watch Leah Remini online. https://heavy.com/entertainment/2018/11/watch-leah-remini-scientology-jehovahs-witnesses-online/
This is the entire show from last night.
I will see if I can find english version of it. They will vote about it in the summer.
World Wide Web is making me worried today. EU is trying to get fast through their new law about copyright. It could mean that EU countries could not watch Youtube or use sites like this one. Shutting down popular sites like WordPress. EU is totally trying to isolate its countries from other world. It makes me thinking that I could probably not use this site when their new law is accepted and stamped. There is no more freedom of speech in EU.
Wow Marjo, I wasn’t aware of this. Do you have a link on an article so we can read it?
No it showed up right away, but it was in moderation.
Thanks, I downloaded a widget called “whitelist”. As we go the program will start recognizing all of the emails. I need to fine tune but at least the widget is there.
Thursday 6pm-10pm CST- Chicago and Saturday 6pm-12pm CST- Chicago the BBB is taken. So you figure out a time for your part of the globe and request the hours and that will be yours. I think after the A&E show is put on the internet after tonight there will be all sorts of people wanting to just talk. Also, your Life’s small struggles forum can be any person or religion. We can talk about recipes or sewing even, lol.
The thing that makes a website work is a diversity, and believe it or not controversy. We tracked on the fojw site when we had the highest count and when they checked and bounced. An activity of any kind makes a website interesting and they will pick up some spiritual chatter on the way as they see we realize Jesus died for us ALL.
When you send your stuff and book a day and time, only if you want to, we can get started. Take care.
Thank you ?
I will begin to think my first article.
Instead of answering emails sometimes I will just do what it asks. Did you have to wait before your comment appeared? I am working on that problem. You send your material to me via email and I will configure and post it.
Marjo, I will wait for your Bio and article. This is your page because sometimes there is just small talk.
I think we need a daytime show on the BBB where your side of the world is not getting up at 2 am. So Finland and that time zone might have some that want to talk also and you can post on some of your time zone facebook pages and let’s see what happens.