In Reply to: Welcome to Journeys, Natasha posted by Alan on January 28, 2004 at 01:40:05:
Hi Alan,
What a warm greeting, and so encouraging also. In you I do not sense fear or apprehension, but love rather. I am very pleased to meet you, and also very encouraged by your example. Thank you very much Alan. I hope that you will, sometime when you are ready, feel free to email me.
Yes we were fortunate, and yet I imagine that you also, as did I, found yourself often to be very put upon by unreasonable authority figures, and also we both were required to sacrifice everything, our friends and families, careers all our worldly possessions, and even so very completely, our very autonomy. We did so also, only to discover that though we had done so in good faith, we were then
in the hands of those without good faith, being exploiters of power over us, as harsh and unjust autocratic rulers.
I yet believe that God began a good thing, and then human weakness was exploited, by you know who, as he seduced those whom God had called. This happened because one small principle had been neglected. That, among us there should be no rulers, but the greatest are the servants of and humble ministers to, those whom they lead 'by example only', even as Jesus did.
Because this fundamental was neglected and even flagrantly disobeyed, DB over time degraded into a slave of M, to be destroyed by his pride and willful disobedience. This M is not one of us, and never has been, and she does evil to the hurt of many, and yet you shall 'soon' see her fall with your own eyes, and it will be a great fall indeed. This I have been given to tell you, as one who is nothing, yet ever so fortunate.
Now please let the fearful and intolerant dogmatic and aggressive, hold back their criticisms, and respect our freedom to share as we do, even as you also expect, to receive of us toward you.
Natasha