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I see feelings now as an indicator of a deeper issue of not being true to myself. When I begin to move out from an unconditional to conditional love approach to those in my life including myself.They warn me of this. I'm thankful for them. The last few years have been spent with much purging of fals...

I have a confession They say the church is where we come to confess our sins one to another. Well brothers and sisters , since this is one of the only churches I have left I need to confess. The last few years have been a series of evolving out of the bitterness of IC life. I was reading some 2009 p...

Hi Jeff and Aida, Great thoughts from you both. Only in the last week I listened to this Podcast from Rob where he interviews Carlton Pearson, another heretic LOL: http://robbell.podbean.com/e/episode-27-at-the-brady-with-carlton-pearson/ At about 71 minutes Carlton recounts an episode in an LGBT c...

Thanks for the link Ian, will check it out .

Everything is spiritual. On Thursday night I went to see Rob Bell at the Tabernacle in Atlanta. For some reason I felt compelled to go since my liking of his "Love Wins". Coming out of the evangelical western paradigm of literalism in all things Bible has been something I have desperately ...

Thanks. Oh yeah I get that too sometimes. The middle of the night doomsday flashes. Doing much better now. If I examine deep enough and get still enough I can usually locate the trigger points of the anxiety. Sometimes it's pretty elusive. Here's a song by that very title. 8-) It's from the musical ...

I don't think there is an arrival point anymore. I used to but it seems that too is an illusion. the other day after memorial Day weekend I had a full blown anxiety attack. Doubled over in stomach pains , sever diarrhea , shortness of breath and flat out panic. A trip to the ER found me lying there ...

Forgive me for not minding my own business brother but where abouts were you when he was in his teens? Was it shared custody? Shared custody until he was 13 then to his mom's. He complained that we made him to chores and pick up after himself . We moved to Georgia 2 years later. But a couple weeks ...

Wow, great story bro, mine ? not so much. Same name of a son different results I think. :? As you know my son Austin packed up everything he owns..a wide screen tv and an xbox about 100 games and left for the south. He wound up in Savannah GA. At first he liked it. But then he made some really boneh...

I'm in a weird but blissful place now. Life isn't easier but I'm finding my reaction to it easier if that makes sense. I have no longer a reason to prove anything. Not even my purpose of exsistence. I mean I am still very active in creative musical writing and sense of artistic expression ...but it ...

Much of what you are talking about is variously spoken of as adapting or acclimatizing to the "inherent thusness of things as they are" (colloquially - "it is what it is"). The release from almost inconceivably deep bondage that is mostly too subtle, built-in and entrenched to n...

Yeah, previous marriage. It's been an ongoing battle. He's a decent kid but my parents enabled him and his mom does the opposite, he's 27 now. You just can't play video games all day and expect to be baby sat. Anyway. He's on the road now. He seems happy and determined. I kind of envy the freedom. J...

I don't think you even have to come to terms with it. I've never been to China either. It's over there and I've heard about it. What I mean is.... It's as it comes. No answers because the question is so vast. I just spent a week in Florida. It was beautiful. I was by the pool with a drink in my han...

I don't think you even have to come to terms with it. I've never been to China either. It's over there and I've heard about it. What I mean is.... It's as it comes. No answers because the question is so vast. I just spent a week in Florida. It was beautiful. I was by the pool with a drink in my hand...

Nothing anymore is as I imaged it to be. I feel good about the excersise of seeking peace these days. I no longer am bogged down by worrying about the divine plan as I used to be..well at least for the time being. ;) It is as it is. The Bible is a bit of a long past freind now. It isn't scary but ju...