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I forgive you, Sherpa. Immediately and without reservation.
My prayers are with you in all you are facing.
And I pray for each of us to continue to follow the Lord in what He shows us.
He carries us close to His heart.

I also want to say that I am really sorry for attacking someone among us and judging him as not wanting us to heal. What his attitude is is between him and God, not me. That was wrong of me to judge, and as you say, I do not know what is in that person's heart and cannot say what he is thinking. In that I am wrong and I am sorry, Gene. Thank you rroym and mosquito bite for pointing that out. I have learned so much from your posts, rroym, and continue to reread them and learn.

The Grace report and this website have forced me to go back and face my childhood years in the dorm honestly and admit the pain I experienced, instead of pretending that nothing was wrong. After a long time of grieving since I started reading this website, and now beginning to heal, I find I can experience emotions again (I hadn't allowed myself to feel in so long, but didn't know that), and my emotions are all over the place sometimes - but with God's help I will learn to show His grace and not judge. In this process, I'm also learning to think and to say what I think, instead of being so compliant that I don't know what I myself think! But I don't want to hurt others in the process. You all have taught me so much and have helped bring me to this place of healing. I want to be able to continue to hear you and learn from you.

Sherpa Dude and Agast:

Thank you for your humble and healing words. You have a lot to teach us all.

I don't think I can improve on Mosquito Bite's words, so I will appropriate them here:

I forgive you, my dear friends. Immediately and without reservation.

My prayers are with you in all you are facing.

And I pray for each of us to continue to follow the Lord in what He shows us.

He carries us close to His heart.

Thank you Gene. I too love what Mosquite Bite wrote - I'm so thankful He carries us close to His heart - always! It's an incredibly great privilege to be held in His arms, loved. And to be in His arms instead of being squashed by monsters from the past is most awesome. God is so good! I am challenged to see others as being held in His arms too - to not jump to conclusions about them but to see them as totally loved by God, including those I disagree with. We are all working through our hurts in different ways, still loved by God despite the mistakes we make, and can learn from each otehr. It's good to know too we can make mistakes and still be held in His arms! It's actually really cool to feel ok if I make mistakes at this point in my journey, instead of fearing any infraction of perfection! Growing....learning to be loved...learning to love!

We just SAW forgiveness happen.
It is beautiful.
You are lovely, Lord! Because of Your mercies........
Thank you, Sherpa and Agast.
My heart is filled with joy.

NTM did have a program for MKs coming back. I remember our family teaching one mk how to use a phone.

Funny...another MK and I have often discussed starting a home for MK's...helping them open that first checking account, buying that first car...finding summer jobs...shopping for appropriate clothes...showing them culturally relevant movies, music, and dance moves (so that you actually get the jokes instead of just laughing when everyone else does--or not realizing they are laughing at you!)...and most importantly... a place to be when everyone else has somewhere to go. I wish I had had a place to park my life.

(Of course there would be work-detail, IPod raids, and email would be randomly searched. Phone calls to parents would be monitored to assure them that their children on another continent are faring well without their input as their emotionally crippled (but surprisingly "mature" teens) choose college majors and life partners.)

Sherpa is out of the hospital and was playing the air guitar on the way home. Fingers working. PRAISE THE LORD. AND THANK YOU LORD.

Pat Hendrix was hired by NTM and reportedly began her job in mid-February, 2011. Her job of coordinating investigations into abuse of MKs in NTM around the world over the past six decades.
Mid-February. Tomorrow it is April.
Has anyone been contacted by this coordinator? Has anyone seen ANY communication from her?
I have not. But maybe others have. I hope others have.
NTM, you have been paying this coordinator since mid February. A month and a half, at least.
How is she doing?

Silence.

I feel like an April Fool.