It took almost a
month for us to get our music equipment back. They showed up on a day
I was cleaning a house and I think that may have been strategically
planned.
The newly Returned
Elder and the Pastor’s wife showed up at the house and Geoff was
kind and polite and helped them unload the equipment. As he passed
the Pastor’s wife with my keyboard, he looked down to avoid hitting
her with the cumbersome instrument and noticed her video recording
the entire exchange on her phone. He clearly saw the video running as
she had the screen facing up, with the camera towards the ground and
he saw the video record running. It’s just sad that she would go to
such measures, but none of this surprised me at all when he told me
about it. The extremes that I’d dealt with after leaving that
other church in 2009 were way worse so that was child’s play in my
book.
There were a few
things that they missed upon returning equipment and Geoff let them
know. Eventually, it was a returned but it took a few more weeks.
Since we
left...People, even one of my own team members, deleted me on
Facebook right off the bat and the trend continued for months. I knew
what was going on, just like the other two Elder’s wives, I knew
the gossip was probably horrendous about me, just like it was about
them. I can’t say I have a single real friend left from that
church. There’s a few acquaintances that will still reach out and
say hi whenever I run into them in public, but we’ve pretty much
been cut off. Initially, there were a few men who kept in contact
with Geoff and expressed how much they missed us both. It’s just
sad, because for a year these people were my family, support and I
poured into them with everything I had.
I had to start
deleting and blocking people myself eventually. Particularly the
Pastor’s wife as she was making nasty comments in response to some
of our comments on facebook. A mutual friend of ours asked for praise
reports on his Facebook and I responded with how God had provided a
few extra jobs for me when we needed the money. The Pastor’s wife’s
comment, immediately after mine, was “Praise God, He pruned our
vine”. Now that was vindictive and just downright hurtful. So I
took a screenshot, sent it to the Pastor in a text and explained that
I’d be deleting and blocking his wife because of her hurtful
conduct and I prayed that this wouldn’t be taken as offensive but
for my spiritual and emotional health, at this time that I could not
continue to be her friend on facebook and I prayed he understood. He
never responded!
There had been
numerous comments along those lines and any opportunity to make a
nasty comment on either our friend’s pages or our own, she took
every opportunity. So eventually we both blocked her.
The Facebook
harassment rears it’s ugly head every now and again. Geoff, my
beloved husband, loves to post theological stuff on facebook and
occasionally it’s in response to someone from our former church,
and then mysteriously the Pastor’s wife will respond to Geoff’s
comments on facebook in rebuke. We have no idea what is said and
honestly she shouldn’t be able to see Geoff’s comments either
because we blocked her, but somehow she sees the comments and rebukes
Geoff. It all just shows her heart.
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