This is a strangely difficult post for me to write, and I'll advise you to skip it if you do not want to hear about my faith. (I wouldn't blame you. Up until a few weeks ago I didn't want to hear about it, either.)
I was raised Roman Catholic and went to a Roman Catholic school until 1997. (Until 1997, Denominational education was the norm in Newfoundland) Culturally, I would say the closest I would describe myself as is "Newfoundland Irish Catholic...but lapsed." When I have said on your blogs that I am praying for you or your family, I truly am. I am begging something for peace for you, or for for a certain outcome. I'm putting my whole heart into it, I promise.
But I've thought- for a variety of reasons- that religion wasn't something I could...access. Something I didn't have a right to. Because I am gay, because I have had past life regressions, because I sense things and know things.
I envied people of faith- especially people of faith who could be good to me with all those things stacked against me.
And then last weekend I went to a wedding. The secret agents mentioned in a previous post were taking the plunge and getting married. They are two of the most loving, giving people I know, and their faith is very important to them.
We arrived in time for the weekly "kinship" group- a small group of people getting together for fellowship and community and prayer. Their pastor is young and energetic, the father of children, a husband- And he knows what an IEP is, intimately. I loved it. I felt myself opening up to him, and to the couple we were staying with, also disabled, and also in ministry, about the "God moments" I've been experiencing or witness to in the last few weeks or months.
Sweet Keri and her trip to Russia
The family at His Hands His Feet and their sweet Selah's lasting legacy
And all of you- my "Blogger Mamas" who are there when I need someone to talk to, who give me perspective with your joys and struggles, who welcome me...
"God's everywhere." I said many times that night. "And I just don't know what to do with it... I'm not... I don't... I'm not that kind of person."
"Just dwell." I was told.
So I am. And it feels good.
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4 comments:
So utterly awesome. God has his own timing for you and your life. I am a believer that all the pain we go through is for a purpose greater than I could ever come up with. I felt very peaceful reading your post.
Let it be what it is. (I don't even know if that made sense! But that's what came to mind when I finished reading your post)
It was ordered... no idea how long it will take!
Be blessed ... seek Him! Read your Bible!!! :)
I too was touched by Selah's story and her family's compassion and caring. There are God moments everywhere - the trick for me is turning down the noise in my life to attend to these moments.
I'm a new reader. I also felt your peace as I read this beautiful post. May I please share with you this thought: God's people are imperfect and will judge and let each other down, but God does not. He bids you and woos you to come to Him because you are His child. Your past choices, regressions, and sins will be tossed "as far as the east is to the west". As for your being gay, I don't know all the answers, but it is between you and God -- and it does not affect His love for you NOR his ability to use you for His kingdom work. Blessings to you.
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