A personal beat-down

Recently, my husband and I have been subject to a spiritual and character beat-down. It seems as though everyone has it out for us. The people we have been portrayed as are not at all who we are. We have been talked about, put-down, griped at, over-ruled, and finally our character has been attacked.

What have we done to deserve this? We have poured our hearts into our ministry. Given until we have nothing to give. Cared for people that could care less. Taught lessons, opened our home, given our time, and for what? To be assualted on very personal levels by people who claim to think we are "The Bomb."

They don't listen when we teach. They do what they want regardless of anyone else's feelings. They turn our words around and make them something they are not meant to be.

This is not a poor me article. This is a fed-up article. When people tell others who do not know us how bad of people we are and have nothing to base it on, I take that personally. When my character and my job is criticised, I have no other option but to take it personally. Others feel they can do a better job and would rather talk about what they would have done if they were in the position, but when it comes to acting on it, cower.

I am done!! No more am I going to put myself out there to be trampled on and beat down. I have two priorities in my life: making heaven and teaching my children how to make heaven. With the rate that we are being talked about and assaulted, I will be lucky to escape. I am now going to focus on my family because in the past nearly two years they have been put on the back burner. They are now my priority.

So for those of you reading this that are guilty of this brutal beat-down...it is your turn to put your actions behind those words and show us how we should be running things. If you have been taught anything in the past year it should be to respect authority. You have done a really good way of showing your respect. It's your turn now.