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Being One of Jehovah's Witnesses and Life After

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I have decided to chronicle my experiences from being one of Jehovah's Witnesses (JW), why I left the religion, and my life post-JW.
This is bound to get comments from practicing JWs, probably refuting things I write and maybe even making the go-to claims that I (one anyone else who dissents) am just bitter, angry, or hateful. I hope to any objective observer it will be evident that I am merely sharing my life experiences.All Rights Reserved

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Letters to God

I feel I should offer a disclaimer; this will not be a book of pretty words and flowing writing. It might even have an odd format with short stories, prayers, poems, journal entries, and autobiographical tendencies. There will be raw bits of unfiltered emotion because I have always been a very emotionally driven person prone to over-sharing. This isn't a tutorial or a teaching manual, or a guide to Christianity. It is my personal journey in discovering The Way. My ongoing path from religion to having a personal relationship with the Living God. The idea for Letters to God has been with me for years. At first, as a blog post, but that didn't appeal to me as much, for my heart has always leaned toward writing books. Then I tried sharing parts of it as short stories, but that didn't sit well with me either. Subconsciously, I've been working on this for years. Of late, the Holy Spirit keeps putting the title in my head, and I've finally gotten the message.