hello loving people....
godsrabbit
Registrant
marc, joe, and jeff,
thank you...very much...have had a couple of bad days with the whole phoenix bishop thing just blowing my mind...i really appreciate your encouragement and your reassurance...
i really do understand venting out of rage...i understand the pain of feeling betrayed and spiritually abused (not to mention physically and emotionally)...i guess, much as i think i am ready to face these things, i find the generalizations hard to deal with, so please understand that i feel very strongly that it is important for people to be honest about their feelings and it is important to put a voice to this sense of betrayal...i am just not personally sure that i can handle it...
went to a meeting for "snap" about two months ago and it was so incredibly painful to listen to the stories of other people and to feel their grief...i pray continuously for the healing of all the innocents who have ever been harmed in this way...i never want to contribute to a culture of secrecy and abuse, so it is very difficult for me to sit in a room and try to say that the faith is not the abuser, that God is not out to get people, etc.
i think it is good for me to be here...i hope i have the strength to stay and learn to face some of this...as i sid in another post somewhere, this is what i believe i need in my healing right now: to learn to be able to be sensitive to others with out taking it all so personally...
bless you, thank you for your words, jeff...your honesty is very consoling....
thank you...very much...have had a couple of bad days with the whole phoenix bishop thing just blowing my mind...i really appreciate your encouragement and your reassurance...
i really do understand venting out of rage...i understand the pain of feeling betrayed and spiritually abused (not to mention physically and emotionally)...i guess, much as i think i am ready to face these things, i find the generalizations hard to deal with, so please understand that i feel very strongly that it is important for people to be honest about their feelings and it is important to put a voice to this sense of betrayal...i am just not personally sure that i can handle it...
went to a meeting for "snap" about two months ago and it was so incredibly painful to listen to the stories of other people and to feel their grief...i pray continuously for the healing of all the innocents who have ever been harmed in this way...i never want to contribute to a culture of secrecy and abuse, so it is very difficult for me to sit in a room and try to say that the faith is not the abuser, that God is not out to get people, etc.
i think it is good for me to be here...i hope i have the strength to stay and learn to face some of this...as i sid in another post somewhere, this is what i believe i need in my healing right now: to learn to be able to be sensitive to others with out taking it all so personally...
bless you, thank you for your words, jeff...your honesty is very consoling....