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Anon on Earth
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Date: March 19, 2018 06:29PM
So I was once married to a TBM. When I quite being mormon, we parted ways. That was quite a few years ago. While my life has had ups and downs, I never felt that the hand of god was at all involved in pushing the chess pieces, and certainly the gospel plan, where bad people fail and perish, while and the goodly proper, because: god, was not in evidence. I have prospered in the two ways that really, really matter: love and health. And we're not too shabby on the money part.
I'm a very happy individual, involved in an excellent relationship, and if I wanted to credit god with how good things are now, many a properity gospel adherent would chime in with a hallelujah or two. Not bad for a atheist!
Now here's the weirdness: my TBM ex-wife, faithful servant for lo these many years, has announced she is terminating her life. Per one of our children, she went to her branch president and got the okay to stop dialysis and to stop taking her assorted medications. (I wonder if he gave her a blessing, that "go ahead and die" blessing?)
She is expecting to die within 12 to 15 days. Mention was made that the pain pills she has been taking were not very effective, and she is hoping that they give her some strong stuff, PRN.
God tested her like you wouldn't believe, but for whatever reason, I got all the rain I needed. And I can't help but wonder what all the people in her family who don't like me think about it? Why did she have a relatively poopy life while I, a rascal and a bounder, with hardly a saving grace, am happy, healthy and kicking up my heels?
There was some talk of me attending the funeral, in support of our kids, but while I was ready to go (and not happy about it!) saner heads prevailed. All of the kids are married and have houses and their mother has lived with each of them, and each of them couldn't wait to get rid of her. About two years ago they all chipped in to make up the difference between what her SS paid and the cost of a decent old folks' warehouse. (Ghastly places!) When the TBMest of them all had her mother-in-law die and a son go a mission, thus losing an excuse and creating lots of room, she didn't say a word about having her mother move back in! (My mother, senile and decrepit, died in my home; ...just saying.)
According to one of my sons-in-law, the whole thing is a ploy, a shot at getting more attention, because although she lives close to some of the kids, none of them visit her. Sort of like Grandpa Abe, on the Simpsons. But she's missed on dialysis apppointment, so...
The basic point I wanted to make is that it sure looks like god does not keep his word, and if there's some mysterious reason that explains this, why bother to have written rules and promised pay offs? If there are unwritten rules that cancel out the written ones, what the hell!!