Quote from: cindianna_jones on July 19, 2006, 02:11:12 PM
Chaunte, don't let anger burn a hole in your soul. I know that what you are feeling is very hard. I've been there. Ask yourself this: What would Christ do? That's always a settling thought for me. There was only one time recorded when he became enraged.
You are right. Don't change your religion. You have other things to worry about now. You will somehow come to terms with this. It's like a long and painful divorce. You will find a place and new friends to worship with. Keep the faith girl.
Cindi
Lets see if i can explain it better...
I see this as an emotional responce to an injustice. I don't see it burning a hole in my soul. Rather, I see it as the driving energy to do something
constructive about it.
What would Jesus do? I believe that he would first would have joined in the liturgy and had dinner with everyone. Second, I believe that he would have asked the pointed questions necessary to force the main stream congregations to rethink the issue.
Am I going to start picketing the Dioscean offices? No. That will not do anything constructive.
As I start living more and more as me, will I attend Mass as
me? Yes. Small, open-minded parishes first.
Will this take time? Absolutely. Generations? Could be.
Perhaps anger isn't the right word. Or, perhaps, my initial anger is transforming into something else - into an energy to try and right this wrong. Either way, I feel it as a constructive drive, not a destructive force.
Chaunte
