He is more of an agnostic is the way he identifies himself, and trust me I just learned the hard way that I can't talk with him about God anymore. I just want to him to accept me, and I will keep my mouth shut from now on about my personal beliefs. Only bad things happen when I try to talk with him about God.
Also, he once said that maybe there is a God who created all this, but he said he is very sure the God of the bible does not exist. You know how it is with these unbelievers. They just do not like our God.
- PS. I am very addicted to photography, and I have been using Adobe Creative Suite for a very long time, and Photoshop I used for probably over 14 years now. It is part of my job but not totally focused on these apps and Photoshop surely does way more than retouching and resizing. It very powerful app and does wonderful artistic things.
Kitty I was really depressed and disheartened reading your last few posts. I've really come to like you and follow you with interest. I'm over double your age and I can look back and reflect at my life and development over the years and a lot of my struggles, ups and downs and I can almost see you following in my footsteps. I don't have gay tendencies and thankfully my mental health is OK but my Christian life has been a true rollercoaster ride, dogged by my impetuous character, wanting instant results now rather than waiting on God, compromise, sin and poor choices in relationships, again due to not waiting upon God. You had been making such progress, really encouraging people and giving some pretty forthright and good posts and advice and encouragement. You seemed happier, more contented in yourself. Please, please, please don't let slip ups cause you to chuck the baby out with the bathwater.
One verse that both encourages and troubles me is Matthew 19:8. It's Jesus's teaching on divorce. He's basically saying that God as much as He hated it, was forced to allow divorce otherwise His precious people would have turned completely against Him, and He just couldn't bear that. I take from that verse that if you want to live a life of compromise, sin and still love and serve Him, God will take that. So why is it troubling? Because although still in touch with God, you'll not have the wonderful, exciting, Spirit filled relationship with Him. He'll always feel distant and your life will stumble from crisis to catastrophe much like Jonah's in the Bible. That's not the lifestyle God wants for you: He thinks you're better than that and deserve so much more.
I can only urge you not to follow in my footsteps, but recognise that God loves you with a limitless love that cost Him His son and yet such is His love, God viewed that price as a bargain! God is your creator, provider, saviour, best friend, protector, adores you more than all others combined. He feels your pain and wants to take it away but He needs your unwaning love and devotion.
Please, please, talk to Him, unload, tell Him you love Him, how you feel, your doubts, troubles and issues and ask God to deal with them. God loves praise, tell Him what it is about Him you love so much, thank Him for .... (long list). Just keep chatting to Him.
I'm not going to tell you to ditch the weed or end a destructive relationship that seems to have screwed you up more than all the others put together. That's for you to work out with God. You can become a strong, Spirit filled woman, exuding the joy and love of God. Probably mental health issues will keep rearing it's ugly head. Paul talked about a thorn in his side; some think that he was referring to a person, I think maybe he was talking about his mental health; I don't know but maybe it applies.
I'm praying for you, praying that the haze lifts and that you can see the glory of God and become that strong, God loving mother of your daughter, leading her by example to an eternal life giving decision and relationship with our God. If you want to chat further please, please PM me and I'll get back to you.
Take care lil sis. I love you,
Andy xxx
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Dear dear Lord God, please, please, my poor sweet sister Linda is really going through the mill at the moment. Please get inside her and reveal to her just some of your glory, light, love and majesty, give her the experience of your love and care that seems to have dwindled of late. Reveal to her how you want to take her life and transform it, releasing her from everything that seems to be dragging her down. Please Lord, show her your way, how wonderful it is Lord. I pray dear Lord you can deaden her sinful tendencies and replace them with your love, your Holy Spirit.
Lord I love you God. Thank you for the way you've helped, guided, protected me. I know dear Lord that you have the same incomprehendible love of Linda that have for me. I pray Lord God that you'll do for her what you've done for me, for which Lord I will be eternally grateful; and I mean eternally!
Love you God. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Amen