Re: Twisted Family Values

After reading the thread of "Twisted Family Values" my only thought is how silly and even petty He must think we all are.

I am a 41 years old, a native of Nashville, and I was raised in the Mormon church. I have never known a love like that shown me by my mother my entire life. She is gone now, but thank goodness, she was able to pull the truth from me before she passed. Her only fear was that I was unhappy. I hope and believe that I was able to make her see that I WAS unhappy when I prayed every day for years of adolescence for God to change me and I did not change. I WAS unhappy when I tried dating girls because I felt I must. I WAS unhappy when I thought of how disappointed my parents would be that I would never give them grandchildren. But I was full of guilt and just plain wrong.

Now I am happy. Now I know that I am who God created - no one and nothing else. It's love folks, that's all. Tiny correction: Two things make me unhappy, 1) the daily pain of missing both my parents, and 2) the fact that my church is lost to me unless I chose to go back in the closet and live a lie.

Live your life showing kindness to others, do not judge because it isn't your job and quite frankly, not one of us is qualified.