The story...
I imagined a world that was envisioned for me to sell toothpaste, Chevrolets, and scrubbing agents by "Ad Men" in Manhattan. There was no escaping the overwhelming number of ad messages - they worked. Life's better when you're drinking a Coca-Cola.
It was a world of love and acceptance - freedom to be me with other like-minded people. Nobody would tell me what to do - I would live out the good stuff and toss the mundane, boring, and self-deprecating parts into the trash. People would be as you imagined them to be. I would find a life partner, who agreed with me, and live out an unburdened good life.
My personality and intellect tended, and tends, to move me towards the rebellious end of the the spectrum. What was my North Star that kept me going? I think that it was my fundamental desire to be accepted, respected, and loved Initially, I believed that the marriage relationship would fulfill those needs. Marriage is really important - it can teach us how to give and receive love. Yet, another person doesn't fill all the missing parts of a good and honest life.
The only church in town will communicate and work out relationships with God, and each other, through His provision in Christ. I want to be found with Him now and for evermore - and work life out with other like-minded-hearted people..
Just for today...
"What role do my expectations as a child play in my difficulties as an adult?" Hope for Today (p. 355)
"The more light we generate for others, the better we can see ourselves." One Day at a Time (p. 355)
"Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." I Corinthians 13:4-6 (NASB)
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