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No, this post isn’t about Hillary Clinton although the advice is good for her, but her ego probably won’t allow her to accept defeat gracefully and she’ll continue to fight until her last breath for the Democratic nomination for president.

This is a personal story.

I had been visiting a blog based in France a couple of years ago and left because they kept preaching tolerance while putting me down for being a born-again Christian, even though I stayed on topic to their threads.

About a year ago another blogger noticed a post in which my name and email were given and she wrote to me asking about my experiences on that blog. She was actually evangelizing to them and they were calling her all sorts of vile names and placing pornographic pictures with her face superimposed on them as though it were the funniest joke on earth.

The blog owner’s wife had recently left him to return to the US via Canada. He posted how sad he was and that he wanted to commit suicide. I posted that if he wanted to talk he could email me.

He emailed me and asked me to install Skype, a program that allows voice and video conferencing if you wish.

Many long nights were spent talking to him and listening to his problems, trying to tell him of the saving Grace of Jesus Christ. Since he is a confirmed atheist I gave up on talking about Jesus except when he said something that would allow me to give a short testimony.

He finally posted a photo of the other American Christian woman that showed her face on the naked body of a woman on a cross. I asked him to please take it down, but he wouldn’t.

Things went from bad to worse until I decided to just stay away from that terrible place.

He began to write to me again, using abusive language a decent person wouldn’t use in mixed company and probably not in unmixed company.

I wrote that I would be his friend but I would not compromise my beliefs for him or anyone else, and if he intended to write such an email again I wouldn’t read it.

He then wrote an “I’m sorry and I love you” email and we had petty discussions on his current plight in life. He is preparing to move in with a woman of means since he lost his job and driver’s license.

I joked with him about cutting neighboring estates’ lawns etc. and got another nasty email from him on Saturday night.

When I told you last week I had not been walking with the Lord it was due to this character, who would say the most vile things about God every chance he got when he got angry, and he did get angry a lot.

When I received his final email on Saturday I wrote one to him telling him that he was standing in the way of my Christian walk and that I had re-dedicated my life to Jesus and would follow Him wherever it takes me.

Two days later I got a one-line email from him saying he was glad I had said I couldn’t continue to be his friend because he had come to that conclusion himself the day before.

I never should have allowed myself to get into this position, where my name and the name of the other Christian poster are considered to be poison and ridiculed all because of Jesus. There is such a culture difference with the French and Russian posters on that blog that one cannot state we are all guilty of original sin because of Adam and Eve, without them thinking we are condemning them.

As I said, sometimes it’s just best to walk away. They’ve heard the gospel, mostly from the other American but from me at times too, and it is now up to the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sins and up to them to accept Jesus as the payment of their sins.

Written by ~J~

2 Responses to “Sometimes It’s Just Best to Walk Away”


  1. Guss Says:


    Visit Guss

    I just don’t know what to say to someone that I thought knew better. I’m sorry but I hope that this opens your eyes and makes you realize that you have been taken for a ride. Why you have posted your humiliation is beyond me.


  2. ~J~ Says:


    Visit ~J~

    Because I don’t consider it a humiliation, but a lesson in life. You know me. I’m always willing to be everyone’s friend and I realized in this case that was impossible because it was hurting me.