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From his FB page, Ron made this statement on Oct 16th.
October 16 at 9:52am ·
" Hey guys...first of all let me say that our family is completely overwhelmed by the kindness,
Love, grace , and mercy demonstrated by everyone. I now know what it means to "bear one another's burdens".
Please know that we FEEL your love.... I am grateful beyond measure. I braced for the worst as I new many would try sensationalize the story and turn it into something it's not.
It's tragic and it's sad...however the church community couldn't have been any kinder. Both sides of the family actually spoke w Hope on the phone for 45 minutes yesterday. She has asked me to speak on her behalf and in deep brokenness.. She made me promise to let each of you know that she is sorry for any pain she may have caused and she received great joy in my assuring her of y'all's great love for her. I love each of you dearly and CAN NOT WAIT to see you... One day at a time.." Pastor Ron
BBM. Hmm, so he reports that she says that she can not wait to see them, yet she is in isolation for a year. He has already stated he is divorcing her and I assume she will no longer be a part of this church, so it seems an odd statement to make.
So he said this had been going on for 10 years and yet he carried on the public image of perfection, even preaching about how to have a better marriage when his was supposedly a horror story for the past 10 year? If that is true (and i don't think it is) then should have scaled back his worldwide ministry and started paying attention to his wife.
I have no doubts that he neglected to give her the attention or consideration that a wife (or any spouse needs) needs. Her job was to keep his home nice, raise the kids and make him look good. She was just a prop. He gave more attention to his image than to the reality of his life.
In this: Destiny Magazine article http://www.scribd.com/doc/10046833/Destiny-Summer-08-Online Hope spoke of her parents and upbringing saying : "my parents wanted a stroke of excellence for me.They tried to deposit everything in me that they thought would help me to excell. They took me to dance lessons, voice lessons and modeling school. They pushed me for A’s and they were very hard on me but I thank my parents for everything.When I became a woman and my husband got me I was a broken mass from the bad choices of my life. God and my husband has gotten me where I am today."
and " I had a terrible past but I got a great life now. I got a great future ahead of me because I was not satisfied with living in that terrible past. “Yes my past was bad, I done some bad things, I been a bad girl; it makes me feel horrible and I look at myself in the mirrow and I do not like what I see, so how can GOD love me, so I can’t do anything for GOD."
Sounds like her parents were perfectionists and focused on image too so I don't know how supportive of her they would be in this situation. I don't know what she did that was so "bad". It was probably just typical teenage stuff.
She met Ron when she went to some bible church where he was already enrolled. He was her tour guide when she visited there to check it out. So it doesn't sound like she was every really independent and out on the world on her own. a bible college (for lack of better term for it) is NOT the same experience as a typical college. And Ron, as a preacher's son already probably had his destiny in his mind.
It just sounds like she has lived a life trying to live up to her parents and husband's expectation of portraying the perfect image and not been able to just live a life where she did what made herself happy without fear of how other's felt she should be living.
These are just the random musings of things that I have.
October 16 at 9:52am ·
" Hey guys...first of all let me say that our family is completely overwhelmed by the kindness,
Love, grace , and mercy demonstrated by everyone. I now know what it means to "bear one another's burdens".
Please know that we FEEL your love.... I am grateful beyond measure. I braced for the worst as I new many would try sensationalize the story and turn it into something it's not.
It's tragic and it's sad...however the church community couldn't have been any kinder. Both sides of the family actually spoke w Hope on the phone for 45 minutes yesterday. She has asked me to speak on her behalf and in deep brokenness.. She made me promise to let each of you know that she is sorry for any pain she may have caused and she received great joy in my assuring her of y'all's great love for her. I love each of you dearly and CAN NOT WAIT to see you... One day at a time.." Pastor Ron
BBM. Hmm, so he reports that she says that she can not wait to see them, yet she is in isolation for a year. He has already stated he is divorcing her and I assume she will no longer be a part of this church, so it seems an odd statement to make.
So he said this had been going on for 10 years and yet he carried on the public image of perfection, even preaching about how to have a better marriage when his was supposedly a horror story for the past 10 year? If that is true (and i don't think it is) then should have scaled back his worldwide ministry and started paying attention to his wife.
I have no doubts that he neglected to give her the attention or consideration that a wife (or any spouse needs) needs. Her job was to keep his home nice, raise the kids and make him look good. She was just a prop. He gave more attention to his image than to the reality of his life.
In this: Destiny Magazine article http://www.scribd.com/doc/10046833/Destiny-Summer-08-Online Hope spoke of her parents and upbringing saying : "my parents wanted a stroke of excellence for me.They tried to deposit everything in me that they thought would help me to excell. They took me to dance lessons, voice lessons and modeling school. They pushed me for A’s and they were very hard on me but I thank my parents for everything.When I became a woman and my husband got me I was a broken mass from the bad choices of my life. God and my husband has gotten me where I am today."
and " I had a terrible past but I got a great life now. I got a great future ahead of me because I was not satisfied with living in that terrible past. “Yes my past was bad, I done some bad things, I been a bad girl; it makes me feel horrible and I look at myself in the mirrow and I do not like what I see, so how can GOD love me, so I can’t do anything for GOD."
Sounds like her parents were perfectionists and focused on image too so I don't know how supportive of her they would be in this situation. I don't know what she did that was so "bad". It was probably just typical teenage stuff.
She met Ron when she went to some bible church where he was already enrolled. He was her tour guide when she visited there to check it out. So it doesn't sound like she was every really independent and out on the world on her own. a bible college (for lack of better term for it) is NOT the same experience as a typical college. And Ron, as a preacher's son already probably had his destiny in his mind.
It just sounds like she has lived a life trying to live up to her parents and husband's expectation of portraying the perfect image and not been able to just live a life where she did what made herself happy without fear of how other's felt she should be living.
These are just the random musings of things that I have.