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Thank you! I will! I think the 'relief' feeling I got out of prayer when I actually did it was more of a" Phew, now if someone asks if I prayed last night I can say yes honestly!"
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I haven't prayed since I resigned in August. Well, actually, a little prayer. A Christian friend offered to say one with me...but I felt nothing. Prayer had never really made sense to me. It was intimidating more than anything, and I always just brushed it aside. But when a religious friend asks for me to keep them and their families in my prayers during their great times of need or perils, I mor
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Imagine those candies with a wonderful, sweet outer coating...then the sticky, sour surprise inside. That is what my YW leaders were like. When I was converted, I was showered in love by them. They really seemed to care! I'm sure they did...but what is it they say about small communities ...ah yes. Small minds. Their attitude changed when I befriended a home schooled person and became good fr
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Dang. Wish I could make it! This is the closest meeting ever to me but I have no way of covering the expenses. Good luck, have fun!
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Buaha...mine said i'd be able to translate myself and call down fire from the heavens like Elijah. And even the temple will seem boring and weird at first, I will get used to it and begin to feel at peace there. ...uhhuh.
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Thank you, very much. It's still a ways away to go to get there, but leaving the church was the start to my happiness.
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Weren't they suppose to be listening for the Spirit? God would have noticed my obvious discomfort and sent his little whisper- me-this messenger to the bishop, right? I remember always being confused about it and wondered if God wanted me to be so uncomfortable because I wasn't faithful enough. Thank you for your kind words. I'm doing soooo much better without Mormonism.
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Have you watched it? There are two versions. The town I became a Mormon in had a tradition...the YW or YM class would get together and watch both versions of it with new, younger converts. What I learned? "Mahana, you ugly." (Sorry for any mistypes, I'm not gifted with typing on my phone =P)
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Mmmm ...smell that? It's the smell of cheesy testomies every Fast Sunday.
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All throughout my childhood, I was abused in many forms by the idiot men who my mom clung to and thought she loved. I was also victimized by a boy that posed to be my brother's friend to get into the house. So many things...I became afraid of men. I was always paranoid when they looked at me, thinking they all had other things in mind. By the time we had ran away from my mom's latest disaster boy
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Thanks, everyone. Now I can look back to each and every time I accepted the holy bread and wonder just what kind of ugly bacteria were squatting on there. Makes me feel all warm inside. /end sarcasm
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I can't remember exactly when I found out, but not soon enough apparently. One time, I found these short-like-slip things that I thought were ugly, but more comfortable to wear than slips under my skirts. I went on for years wearing magical underwear (just the bottom part) without knowing. It took my exmo Mom to say, "Better not let Grandma see you wearing her garments" for the truth to
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My Mom's dog took a nice pee on my quad set. Should have seen that as a sign and saved myself years of grief. So yes...mine were very, very much marked. Good Kirby, that's a good boy!
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Thank you so much for your input, everyone! I understand a lot better now. =D
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Before I was bothered with religion at all, I liked the cross just for its shape. Then when I got cornered by Mormonism and chained to it for near five or so years, I obviously learned it had more meaning. But I still liked it. But one of my Mormon buds said to never ever wear crosses. I asked...why? She answered, because it focused on His death, not His life. I said....Christians can and do w
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