“I just want you to know you aren’t a bad mom. I’ve been listening to you, and I felt like you really need to hear that.”
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My Christian Friends Who Have Left Church
I have seen your heartache. I know the person you are. You are people I dearly love, who I know have hearts of gold.
My heart cries out for you because of what you have been through!
This one has a child who is transgender.
Another was sexually assaulted by a man in authority and then told she deserved it.
Yet another, questions the very existence of God because of the many trials that they have gone through because why would a loving God put her through that?
Another just never felt close to God and no matter what he does, he feels nothing.
Oh, how my heart bleeds for you all!
I see your pain and anguish.
I don’t purport to know all the answers. I wish I did. I’ve had my own path to walk with things I have had to plead for help and understanding.
My path hasn’t been yours.
But with everything I have been through, with the answers I have found, this is what I know:
God knows the answers.
And even more than that, he understands.
I think one day when we are able to have a conversation in person with him, he’s going to clear up a lot of confusion for all of us. He’s going to know that one person dealt with life long depression which made it extremely difficult to feel his presence. He’s going to take that into account.
He’s knows the horrific experiences you went through and the effect they had on you. That you were blamed and told you deserved it. That for your own health you had to separate yourself from the church. I believe he has compassion and love for you and he’s going to understand that you did the very best you could.
Sometimes we get so caught up as Christians on things we think we are supposed to do, that we forget the core principal of the gospel of Jesus Christ is love.
We forget that those who have made different choices than we have, deserve love and respect.
We want to grade someone else’s sins greater than our own, and regard them as less worthy. But we don’t get to make that call. Only God does.
So when all is said and done, and judgement is given, I think we’ll see a lot more of those people who left the church, unable to walk our traditional ways, with God. Even if I’m wrong, God says to love him and love others, so I’ll keep walking that path and keep reaching my hand out to you in friendship.
Just because you left the church doesn’t mean God, nor I have to leave you.
So we’ll be right here loving you.
The Hard Work of Living With Anxiety
“Right now I am in a class for Psychological Pharmacology and I have never worked harder on any class in my life. I am not doing well. It’s my last semester so I can’t drop the class if I want to graduate. Last week I spent 6-8 hours a day studying and going to class just for this class. It’s affecting my work for my other classes.
And it’s affecting me.”
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Keeping The Faith In the Face Of Seemingly Unanswered Prayers
“I used to pray as a child that my Grandmother would find her way back to church. But years came and went. For 60 years she kept away. For years my mother prayed that she would make her way back.” Read more. . .
Let Your Baby Cry It Out
“Mom’s out there of young children- The job you are doing is hard. Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about. Take care of you. It’s okay to take a nap, a shower, a meal, or to get out of the house without your baby. Our parents survived it, and so did you. So don’t listen to the people who say that you can’t. You can. And your baby will be as perfect as ever.”
No Matter Your Religion, You Are Welcome Here
“I may not agree with you. But this space is for you. You are welcome here no matter what your religious beliefs are. No matter what your culture is. Your life may be completely different from mine, but I find value in that. Come. Let’s learn from each other.” Read More-
Finding Faith In The Storm
“I didn’t have the complete picture. But God did. I learned that I could trust the Lord as I sat and waited for him. He loves me, and he changed the situation when I could no longer handle it. All I had to do was ask for help and he was there. I’m profoundly grateful for this experience. If ever at any time I was going to leave the church, to leave God, this would have been it. But I made it out the other side stronger, and with greater faith in the love of God. Stand for truth, but let God lead.” Read more…
Church, Autism, and My Son: Granting Myself Grace
“The fact that I breathed a sigh of relief because D wasn’t there gave me pause. Then the guilt started coming. I was happy because my son wasn’t at church? I was happy he was sick and had to stay home? What was wrong with me?” Read more…
My Mother’s Day Story
Many Women have a hard time with Mother’s Day. This is my Mother’s Day story. Read more…
Dear Fellow Church Members- How You Can Help
“There are people in your congregation that are a little bit different. They have some special needs. What you may not know is that many times those special needs can hamper the individual and their family’s ability to come and participate in church, feel comfortable, or even make it difficult to feel that God is near. These are some ways that you can help these families.”
