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I'm in a new job with a few people, a more family-owned company. I've always worked in jobs with lots of people where the workers barely knew each other, or in jobs where I was alone with one or two people. But I recently came to a job where we are like 10 people in the office, along with the warehouse and electromechanical workers. But at lunchtime, only office workers have lunch together (and I'm included). I happen to be "forced" to socialize with them, but the problem is that I don't fit into any of their mundane conversations. I'm not saying they talk about immorality or swear, but they have conversations typical of people without a spiritual mindset. Carnal and hopeless talk, you know? I end up being silent all the time during lunch and I feel like my colleagues think I'm antisocial or something. But I'm not, because with brothers or people with good conversations I can talk and interact. I just don't have a topic or I don't fit into their conversations. Do any of you go through or have been through a situation like this? What do/did you do to combat this "social displacement"? Thanks for all the answers you give me!

Trivia Question: Did Jehovah's servant Job have "windows" in his house? Answer: When Satan brought great suffering to Job by fully testing him, Job replaced all of the "windows" in his home with "mirrors". How did this happen? Job became so focused and self-absorbed about his own sufferings and what he was having to endure that all he could "see" was himself, his own problems. It was as though he had replaced the windows in his home with mirrors! Lesson: When a person has "windows" instead of "mirrors", they are no longer looking at themselves, they can see others, they can see Jehovah's creation, but if every window is replaced with mirrors, all the person sees is himself. So what do we do when we are suffering and enduring problems, such as physical health problems, depression, financial issues, etc, that feel so overwhelming and this causes us to focus mainly on our self, on our own problems? Like the picture here: We can ask Jehovah to do what he did for Job. Jehovah out of compassion for Job sent him a good friend who was a "Window Installer". The window installer's name was "Elihu" and he helped remove the mirrors in Job's house and replaced them with nice big windows so that Job could "see" Jehovah, "see" the bigger picture! What was the result of Jehovah sending this window installer and friend to Job? The result is found in Job's own words: So if you are suffering from a trial, ask Jehovah to send you a friend or an elder who "installs windows" so that your view is not like a home with many mirrors, but that your view looks like this: (These thoughts came from the recent video/talk by Ronald Curzan: Jehovah’s Name Is Sanctified (Matt. 6:9)

Maybe some of you have received this from other friends like I did. - it was good timing for me - I hope it is for you too.. I've attached the PDF file in case you would like it view it on another device. Cross post: http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/780-jobs-wife/?hl=%2Btired+%2Bweary Are you tired or weary? What a wonderful reminder for us when we tend to beat ourselves up. Sometimes we can only do a little, but keep our integrity, which is paramount. Then when we get on our feet again, we can do better. Sometimes, we can say to ourselves, just go to the meeting, maybe I can’t comment tonight; I will do better; I will go in service today, maybe I can’t speak, I can just accompany somebody, I will do better. Just don’t give up! During a recent visit of the circuit overseer in Louisiana, he gave a talk centered on being tired/weary. The brother mentioned Jeremiah and how, after being put in stocks for just one day, he was complaining and cursing the man that announced his birth, and wishing that he had died in his mother’s womb. Why? He was tired. Then the CO asked, what comes to mind when you think of Job’s wife. Most people think of her telling Job to “curse God and die.” (Job 2:9). The CO asked why she wasn’t rebuked with the three so-called “comforters”? It was brought out that Job’s wife was tired—probably more tired than we can imagine. Consider the following: When the messengers told Job that he had lost all his livestock, . . .Job’s wife lost hers too. When Job was told that he had lost all his land and material goods, . . .Job’s wife lost hers too. When the messengers told Job that he had lost all his children, . . .Job’s wife lost hers too. The 10 children that she carried for 9 months each; she bonded with them as she breast-fed each and every one of them, watched them grow up and stand tall, only to lose them all at once, violently. Then, to make matters worse, her husband mysteriously and suddenly developed huge boils all over his body that are open and oozing pus and stink. She watched as the man she loves, the father of her children, cracked a pottery jar to scratch himself in order to alleviate some of the pain, but to no avail. This man, who has been all that to her, is staying away because his breath is so bad that no one can stand it. And she can only sit by helpless, without any explanation for anything. Would we want to continue to see someone suffer or would we too want him to die? Most of us would want a loved one out of their misery. So when Job’s wife said “curse God and die,” she wasn’t being disloyal to Jehovah. She wanted her husband’s misery to end. It was an act of love. She was tired! In the end, not only was she not reproved but she was blessed with everything that Job received: 10 more children, more wealth, and a healthy husband. The CO continued: “There are times when, due to our health problems—either physical or mental, or financial or whatever else—we are not doing all that we feel we should. Once I myself was in such a state. A young friend asked me if I considered Job a faithful man. Of course, I said, ‘oh yes!’ Then she lovingly pointed out, that at one time, all Job could do was sit in the dirt and scrape his sores. That was his act of worship, proving Satan a liar. He did not lose faith. So, next time you are being hard on yourself, for circumstances beyond your control, remember the account of Job. We can, in spite of our circumstances, still give a reply, even if we are only breathing and praying to Jehovah asking him to get through the next minute. Whether our distress is physical, mental or financial, we can be like Job, perhaps only able to “scrape our sores” and pray to get through this trial. Yet we are still doing what Jehovah has asked us to do: give a reply to the one who is taunting him!!! DON’T EVER GIVE UP SERVING JEHOVAH GOD! Are you tired or weary-SEP-18-13..pdf