Hello everyone; I AM SORRY, I HAD POSTED ACCIDENTALLY ON THE PREVIOUS POST HERE, BEFORE I WAS FINISHED WRITING ....(PLEASE JUST PICK UP WHERE I LEFT OFF AT )
Thank you so much for your insight! Right now the problem is that these kids are pretty much Daniels' only social life; with the exception of a few aquaintances from the neighborhood, boy scouts, karate, and baby David. (We have NO family that is totally committed to him and he is an only child (due to the fact that his 5 grown siblings are not there for him either.) I am not trying to embrace their ways, I just hoped to have their home schooling support for Daniel to be able to relate to other HS kids as well as to have social opportunities with his peers...in which he used to have b/f they understood our religious differences.) (They have shunned him and he knows it; they lliterally know (by me telling them) that they are pretty much all he has and they still don't care; he is very young to have to bear the loneliness issue here, b/c he knows no other child of his age who believes as he does.) We have just tried to not dwell on it, and to have fun within our little family of three on every occassion that we can.
(and as you say Arcturus...smile and be happy for this lot and that hopefully they will see that whatever they do will not affect my happiness, which in turn will help them to grow spiritually.)
Erik, and Gena, (I am waiting for the Lord to reveal the answer to me about speaking up right now or not; for now I'll say nothing till I feel prompted to do so. btw, Good observation...this play is for teens and above, and yet the director must think that 'her' kids are mature enough to handle the hell issue (I know that the parents of some of them have discussed hell with these kids and Hell, is all they know and they are very comfortable with hell!) They are trying to cause fear in everyone to get them to see how their current life is effecting their eternal destiny.
They LIVE to EVANGELIZE (alot of them are Methodists); the directors' son is going to be a 'missionary' in a couple of years.
Gena, my DH thinks that I should drop them b/c he thinks that they are not helping with Daniels' academia (which he is correct), but, the social interaction is what I am looking at, even if it is just surface relationships for him to have right now.
'snore fest', now that's cute! (...I LIKE THE IDEA OF WRITING ON THE BOTTOM OF THEIR PAPERS...'THIS IS NOT WHAT I BELIEVE'. And now that you said this, MAYBE God wants Daniel to be there (and for me to guide his understanding of the religious differences dynamics) in order for Daniel to learn how to speak up for his religious beliefs to these other kids; (infact, he has already done that on many occassions.) He is actually getting quite good at it.) Oh, Gena, I needed to hear that about thank you for your vote of confidence and for encouraging me to not worry (lol, I truly noticed more gray hairs today
Good advice Paula, separate myself from this play and let them come to me and ask their questions (this is a big test for me, obvioulsy.) DH stated that if I DO go to the play that I should say nothing more than a critique on the stagecraft and design, the actors and costumes, etc...but I don't think that I could stop at that and not say more to try to convince them otherwise!)
Hi Deb, I know for a fact that they have watched me go from all kinds of changes and they judged me as being flighty and that Ibeing MESSIANIC to now a 'NO HELL BELIEVER' and they think that b/c I have been sick and gained some weight, exhausted, financially poor, no real college degree (although I went to seminary in an accelerated private school that taught us more bible (in 3 yrs than I could get as a bible major at the local affiliated university!) (ill due to a diagnoses 2 yrs ago w/ Gulf war syndrom)
(lol, they would really flip if they knew all of the topics that all of us here believe as written in this site.)