Whistle for the flies, Jesus - whistle for the bees on Terry Shafer
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“What a relaxing, peaceful, stress-less evening I have had! Thank you Jesus. My body is relaxed & I feel pretty and desirable. I cleaned up the kitchen, got things ready for tomorrow, did a load of laundry, did some crossword puzzles, watched the news, Jeopardy, & a non-offensive movie.” Notice anything missing from this admission about what brings her happiness? People. People are always an impediment to Terry’s happiness. She had a lot of folks fooled – both here in California and back home too. They all thought she was a giving and compassionate woman who cared about other people and wanted to give love and friendship away. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Why did I want you to see this note at the front of this book? Because Terry is all about “I, I, I, I.” She only feels relaxed, pretty, desirable, and stress free when she is alone with her crossword puzzle books, and the TV remote. Human interaction never relaxes her. Having a devoted, loving, and attentive Christian man does not relax Terry or make her feel pretty or desirable. Relationships with other women don’t make her feel pretty and desirable or the least bit relaxed. In the eight years that I knew her I never saw her share the Gospel with anyone. I never even saw her share her testimony with anyone in our small group or anyone at our wonderful, evangelistic and growing church over the eight years that she went there. In fact she has never had any relationship with another Christian woman at our church. She went to lunch with the wife of one of our Elders one time – and only because I begged her to. She is friendless and loves it that way. Terry is a lone wolf dressed in Christian trappings.
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Mitch Armaugh, a man with an international reputation in Christendom, suddenly found himself a single dad with two of his three sons still at home and about to enter high school. Mitch had just weathered the tragic and painful loss of his college sweetheart to cancer. He was lonely, available, and very ripe for the picking. Enter Terry Loretta Shafer, a never married loner with a Ritalin-addicted son who did not know his deadbeat father. Terry, a lifelong clerical worker stuck in a dead-end customer phone support job eked out a meager living among Persian immigrants on the seamy side of Phoenix, AZ. In this grinding, true story of persistence and loss, you will see how a dysfunctional but highly manipulative “Christian” woman wormed her way into a high paying job, a $500,000 condo, a tidy retirement account and a neat California no-fault divorce – all at the expense of a Christian man who only wanted to give his heart away.
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Mitch Armaugh, a man with an international reputation in Christendom, suddenly found himself a single dad with two of his three sons still at home and about to enter high school. Mitch had just weathered the tragic and painful loss of his college sweetheart to cancer. He was lonely, available, and very ripe for the picking. Enter Terry Loretta Shafer, a never married loner with a Ritalin-addicted son who did not know his deadbeat father. Terry, a lifelong clerical worker stuck in a dead-end customer phone support job eked out a meager living among Persian immigrants on the seamy side of Phoenix, AZ. In this grinding, true story of persistence and loss, you will see how a dysfunctional but highly manipulative “Christian” woman wormed her way into a high paying job, a $500,000 condo, a tidy retirement account and a neat California no-fault divorce – all at the expense of a Christian man who only wanted to give his heart away.