Entries Categorized as 'Personal Stories'

[Note to Self] Lighten Up Already!

Date March 10, 2008

There are approximately a gazillion blogs I stalk frequently visit. One of them is *! [emphatic asterisk]. Another is Suddenly Christian. So, the other day I had retreated to my secret undisclosed location, a.k.a. Starbucks, to write a blog entry; the second half on wrestling with God. I felt stuck in a writer’s block kind [...]

Anita’s Personal Story

Date February 12, 2008

…in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses (transcends) all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
My personal story has gone through a series of revisions since the summer of 1995 when I [...]

A Life That Didn’t Fit

Date January 1, 2006

I knew I was a lesbian before I got married but I was convinced that if I was “obedient” and married a man, God would take away my desire for women. I met a very nice guy and became engaged. I attempted to tell him about my previous relationships with women, but he didn’t [...]

Who is Rejecting Who?

Date January 1, 2006

Though my story is brief I wanted to share it because it is the opposite of so many of the others included here.
When I was a child my Mom shipped me to every Vacation Bible School in the world, not for the sake of my soul but I suspect the sake of her sanity. I [...]

Gay Husband, Gay Wife

Date January 1, 2006

As we are all still living, our stories are ongoing. I would like to tell you how I came to accept that God does not ‘damn’ us for being gay.
As a child I was brought up going to church every Sunday. I went to a Christian Day school for first through sixth grades [...]

Raindrops in the Desert

Date January 1, 2006

I have always been a Christian, and I was United Methodist for the first 38 years of my life. I was never very interested in guys, and I knew there was something different about me from other girls. I was always teased in high school and college about being gay because I didn’t [...]

An Australian’s Journey Toward New Life

Date January 1, 2006

I am a 37 year old lesbian living in a small town in country New South Wales, Australia. Looking back I knew I was a lesbian by the age of 15. I was growing up in Sydney with my loving parents and three brothers. We had a Catholic upbringing and at least a few [...]

Mennonite Faith

Date January 1, 2006

My name is Malissa and this is my story. I am seventh out of eight children, but grew up the youngest of the six of us who survived infancy. My life was very simple and plain for two reasons. First was economics as we were very poor. Second was my parent’s faith. By the time [...]

Serving Her Country

Date January 1, 2006

As an Army ROTC cadet and a sophomore in college that grew up with Southern Baptist roots, I denied to myself along with everyone else in my life that I was gay. Several years prior to me entering college, while in high school, grew a deep longing for a relationship with a woman.
Being raised [...]

Once An Abomination, Now A Gift

Date January 1, 2006

I’m one of the late bloomers. In hindsight, it’s so very clear. I was a tomboy, my movie star crushes were on female stars, but I knew nothing about homosexuality. One of my earliest memories is about seeing a program on TV. I don’t know what happened on it, but in my four year old [...]