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Book cover for Coming Out: Accepting My Sexuality
Outside of my home, the rest of my family followed the pattern of my dad: a group of pretentious and hypocritical Christians who did not “walk the talk”. My whole life, at least for as long as I can  remember, my dad criticized homosexuals ...more
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This sounds an awful like my early childhood, and left me struggling up the side of a steep cliff to reach a plateau where i could final!y accept myself for who i am.
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Thomas Merton
“The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.”
― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

Brennan Manning
“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

Brennan Manning
“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.”
― Brennan Manning

E.E. Cummings
“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

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This group is for people of the LGBTQ+ community or genuine and sincere LGBTQ+ supporters. This group is to vent, ask and give advice, and to just let ...more
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