We've been having some in-law issues.
Basically, this time last year FIL decided that he should take it upon himself to completely go against Jack's wishes and stab Jack in the back. Immediately following this event, for the first time in Jack's life, he did not speak to his parents for four months. He had never gone more than a few days without speaking to them... and FOUR months went by. Not a phone call. Not an email. Not a card. Not a letter. Nothing.
FIL pulled the same crap this year.
WTF did he think was going to happen? Did he honestly value that stupid event more than his son?
We have been praying and giving our anger to God and our frustrations to Him and asking Him to help us forgive them. To help us to make the right decision with how to deal with them. They don't even know that we know what they've done again.
It kills me that they value their son so little now. It just kills me.
.... also
my chart looks stupid.
I doubt I O'd but it's cute that FF gave me cross hairs.
We got a SUPER nasty winter storm here today.
We went to church again this morning... the church is an extremely conservative church. At least this week we didn't show up in jeans lol. People chatted with us for a while, I think we'll go back on Wednesday night.
I slept almost all afternoon after we got home from church. I have done that kind of thing maybe 2 or 3 times in my whole life. I don't know what came over me but I was exhausted.
I still have so much work to do on my little baby afghan that I'm going to give to Lindsey for her baby shower on the 21st. I am praying that I have the patience required to finish it by them.
I am still so angry about his parents. I am not doing a good job of letting this go. I don't know what to do any more. I spent an hour on the phone on Saturday night talking to my old pastor's wife asking for advice. I always feel like we just get no where. People are always overwhelmed with the unending antics and horrific things that my in-laws do and are a part of. Her main advice to me was to write a book some day to help other people going through the same thing.
Thanks, but what do I do now?
I wish God had a 1800 number. I would gladly sit on hold for weeks waiting to talk to Him personally to find out what to do.
Matthew 18:21-22 says, "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven."
Forgive them and forgive them and forgive them and forgive them.
But, Matthew 18:5-9 says, "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell."
They literally bring out the worst in both of us. It says that it is better to cut off your hand if it causes you to sin and go through life with one hand than to sin. The more I pray about this, the more I am feeling that it is better to go through life with the anguish of not having his parents involved in our lives at all, than have them encourage us to sin and walk away from God as they have done and continue to do.
thoughts?
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