I know I will get there.... it simply feels like a long journey. Thanks for joining me along the way.
RMG and Sol ...
I too am please to be on this journey with you, NoCode, Donna, DoDo, and numerous others who have shared dialogue on these threads.
Perhaps this is a stepping stone to whatever is next for us all in our respective lives.
We have a saying in AA....
"One alcoholic helping another is without parallel".
I believe this is true also of us divorced Christians who have also found ourselves uncomfortable with our church experiences. When we hear our story told by someone else who is simply describing his own life.
Nobody can understand another like someone who has been there. And if we can avoid the pitfall of comiserating together, we can help each other journey through our respective circumstances.
In AA, we try to limit the "drunkalogue"... which is essentially the endless telling of war stories of our drinking days. We certainly need to refer to them, however, this needs to be done in the context of how we discovered a way to change and what life is like now.
Similarly, I think if we can avoid church-bashing, which I feel we have mainly avoided doing, we can accept that we similarly went through troubling circumstances and are working our way through them.
Interstingly, when I read the Bible and how God intervened in peoples lives, he more often delivered them THROUGH circumstances rather than FROM circumstances.
Anyway... thanks for keeping the dialogue progressive, honest and caring.
