Comments on: If Only One http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/ An online community sharing our lives and faith within a place of grace Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:21:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anna http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8393 Anna Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:59:01 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8393 So true, so true .... People are not a means to an end, but, rather, they are the end. So true, so true …. People are not a means to an end, but, rather, they are the end.

]]> By: CRW http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8388 CRW Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:02:27 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8388 I won't be half as eloquent as the other posters here but i've thought about replying to your blogs a few times and just HAD to reply to this one as I bask in the message of God's love for me - I wonder if the good news coming from the screen is visible to the people sitting around me in the library?? I feel like it must be. So many times over the past few months, as I'm coming to terms with my sexuality, I've wonderted if God could really love me and every time I read your blog the answer is a resounding YES! Thank you Anita - I can't say thank you enough for the work you're doing. I won’t be half as eloquent as the other posters here but i’ve thought about replying to your blogs a few times and just HAD to reply to this one as I bask in the message of God’s love for me – I wonder if the good news coming from the screen is visible to the people sitting around me in the library?? I feel like it must be. So many times over the past few months, as I’m coming to terms with my sexuality, I’ve wonderted if God could really love me and every time I read your blog the answer is a resounding YES! Thank you Anita – I can’t say thank you enough for the work you’re doing.

]]> By: anita http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8383 anita Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:46:55 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8383 TDK --> What a joy it is to read of the journey you've been on; how you've been so intentional, courageous and committed to seeking God's will for your life and living in wholeness. It's an absolute blast to know of the changes God has brought in your life that even your friends are able to observe. Your life really is being a witness to others TDK and it's just so inspiring. That I and the other women in the forum have been able to be part of all this transformation in your life is an honor and a humbling one at that. I'm also so glad you found some gems in "Gifted by Otherness" as I have. I'm reading another one right now by the same author, William Countryman, called "Good News of Jesus: Re-introducing the Gospel" and no doubt will be having it filter into my posts in the coming days. I just had the opportunity to meet with a half dozen SisterFriends at one of their weddings and whenever I have the chance to meet with SisterFriends it always makes me long for a time when we could plan a weekend retreat together. I will admit it's a dream of mine and hopefully one day it will be more than that. Regardless, anytime you make a visit, there will be a fruit platter reserved for you! TDK –> What a joy it is to read of the journey you’ve been on; how you’ve been so intentional, courageous and committed to seeking God’s will for your life and living in wholeness. It’s an absolute blast to know of the changes God has brought in your life that even your friends are able to observe. Your life really is being a witness to others TDK and it’s just so inspiring. That I and the other women in the forum have been able to be part of all this transformation in your life is an honor and a humbling one at that. I’m also so glad you found some gems in “Gifted by Otherness” as I have. I’m reading another one right now by the same author, William Countryman, called “Good News of Jesus: Re-introducing the Gospel” and no doubt will be having it filter into my posts in the coming days. I just had the opportunity to meet with a half dozen SisterFriends at one of their weddings and whenever I have the chance to meet with SisterFriends it always makes me long for a time when we could plan a weekend retreat together. I will admit it’s a dream of mine and hopefully one day it will be more than that. Regardless, anytime you make a visit, there will be a fruit platter reserved for you!

]]> By: anita http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8382 anita Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:37:12 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8382 Kare--> One true friend who knows you fully as you are and loves you just as you are is worth more than a thousand friends who need you to be who you aren't. How good it is to know there's one Friend who never fails us and who can inspire us in being the kind of friend to others we want others to be for us. Kare–> One true friend who knows you fully as you are and loves you just as you are is worth more than a thousand friends who need you to be who you aren’t. How good it is to know there’s one Friend who never fails us and who can inspire us in being the kind of friend to others we want others to be for us.

]]> By: TDK http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8380 TDK Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:45:32 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8380 Anita, I was almost in tears after reading this blog and the comments. It has been 3 months now since I first realized that I was a lesbian. I have gone through so many of your archives and they have touched me so deeply. Having been in a fundamentalist church, always feeling something was missing in my life, staying fat to keep a wall up around me - and then I had every brick in the wall I built come tumbling down in a matter of minutes. And while it was God who broke through that, and in 4 days (he knows how impatient I am), somehow I had the audacity to type two words into the search engine -- two words that I knew could not possibly go together Christian and Lesbian. And I found this site. You will never know how much I have learned and grown here and on the forum site. I read the challenge from others and you to start thanking God for the gift of being gay. I didn't think it could work, but it did. And I have finished "Gifted by Otherness" and I must say that my life today is so different from where I started. You were so right, a book that is not an apologetic but it is a celebration. I am now going through it yet again, writing down the quotes I loved in my reconciliation journal. I am no longer waking up every morning asking God to make me straight, falling asleep crying because my entire life is changing. My friends have noticed how suddenly I have just blossomed and my sense of humor is back. People that I have come out to, who have always believed that this is a sin, have looked at me and said that they have to re-think their position because they see God doing amazing things in my life. And they have all, except one -my best friend - have affirmed me, hugged me, and thanked me for being honest. At any rate, your words of encouragement, hope and prayers, have met everything to me. They have inspired me to go deeper into the Word, stay close to His heart in prayer, and most important - accept that Jesus loves me, just as I am. That the things He wants to work on for my life have nothing to do with my sexuality. Anita, this is one life that you have touched in a very profound way. Please always know that God is working through you to heal His hurting people. BTW, I found Is 56:1-8 yesterday, and would love to hear what you say about it. It seemed like it was almost a prophetic statement from God to our community. And someday, I want to come and visit. And yes, I want cake too. LOL Butl, I am dieting - I'll take a veggie tray or fruit plate. Better yet, finish writing that book and from the proceeds start a conference so that we can meet all of the Sisterfriends! Anita, I was almost in tears after reading this blog and the comments. It has been 3 months now since I first realized that I was a lesbian. I have gone through so many of your archives and they have touched me so deeply. Having been in a fundamentalist church, always feeling something was missing in my life, staying fat to keep a wall up around me – and then I had every brick in the wall I built come tumbling down in a matter of minutes. And while it was God who broke through that, and in 4 days (he knows how impatient I am), somehow I had the audacity to type two words into the search engine — two words that I knew could not possibly go together Christian and Lesbian. And I found this site.

You will never know how much I have learned and grown here and on the forum site. I read the challenge from others and you to start thanking God for the gift of being gay. I didn’t think it could work, but it did. And I have finished “Gifted by Otherness” and I must say that my life today is so different from where I started. You were so right, a book that is not an apologetic but it is a celebration. I am now going through it yet again, writing down the quotes I loved in my reconciliation journal. I am no longer waking up every morning asking God to make me straight, falling asleep crying because my entire life is changing. My friends have noticed how suddenly I have just blossomed and my sense of humor is back. People that I have come out to, who have always believed that this is a sin, have looked at me and said that they have to re-think their position because they see God doing amazing things in my life. And they have all, except one -my best friend – have affirmed me, hugged me, and thanked me for being honest.

At any rate, your words of encouragement, hope and prayers, have met everything to me. They have inspired me to go deeper into the Word, stay close to His heart in prayer, and most important – accept that Jesus loves me, just as I am. That the things He wants to work on for my life have nothing to do with my sexuality. Anita, this is one life that you have touched in a very profound way. Please always know that God is working through you to heal His hurting people. BTW, I found Is 56:1-8 yesterday, and would love to hear what you say about it. It seemed like it was almost a prophetic statement from God to our community.

And someday, I want to come and visit. And yes, I want cake too. LOL Butl, I am dieting – I’ll take a veggie tray or fruit plate. Better yet, finish writing that book and from the proceeds start a conference so that we can meet all of the Sisterfriends!

]]> By: kare http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8379 kare Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:38:45 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8379 Anita believe me if we had the money to come out we would have been there. I have found out to that numbers don't matter. There are poeple that have alots of friends but the one thing that they are lacking is a real friend. Someone that they can share with and be themselves. The same thing applys to what you were talking about. Its that friendship or time when hearts open and something is filled or even where and old pain or hurt has touched and started to healed. Thank you. Anita believe me if we had the money to come out we would have been there. I have found out to that numbers don’t matter. There are poeple that have alots of friends but the one thing that they are lacking is a real friend. Someone that they can share with and be themselves. The same thing applys to what you were talking about. Its that friendship or time when hearts open and something is filled or even where and old pain or hurt has touched and started to healed. Thank you.

]]> By: anita http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8378 anita Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:03:31 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8378 Susan--> And the church folks weren't complaining about the cake left-overs on Sunday morning either :) Susan–> And the church folks weren’t complaining about the cake left-overs on Sunday morning either :)

]]> By: susan http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8377 susan Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:55:34 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8377 Hey Anita, I loved reading this and who came to join in your circle and walk the labyrinth and eat of the cake of equality. Just like with the loaves and fish, the beauty is that there was plenty of cake (or bread or fish) for whatever sized group appeared, and everyone was going to "be fed". Peace, Susan Hey Anita,

I loved reading this and who came to join in your circle and walk the labyrinth and eat of the cake of equality. Just like with the loaves and fish, the beauty is that there was plenty of cake (or bread or fish) for whatever sized group appeared, and everyone was going to “be fed”.
Peace,
Susan

]]> By: anita http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8376 anita Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:25:46 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8376 Anonymous--> I'm touched by the encouraging comments people have added in response to this post though I promise I wasn't "fishing for compliments." At the same time, it means everything to know that the existence of this blog has helped anyone let alone a few more than that. And no...no comparisons to Jesus were drawn...even on my most inflated ego day! :) Anonymous–> I’m touched by the encouraging comments people have added in response to this post though I promise I wasn’t “fishing for compliments.” At the same time, it means everything to know that the existence of this blog has helped anyone let alone a few more than that. And no…no comparisons to Jesus were drawn…even on my most inflated ego day! :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/if-only-one/comment-page-1/#comment-8375 Anonymous Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:07:41 +0000 http://www.sisterfriends-together.org/?p=3468#comment-8375 Anita, you rock! And I don't know how many people could second this---I'm sure many over the years, but you've helped me tremendously over the past couple years. Please please know that. I know numbers or a lack thereof can be discouraging, but it's not what it's about; you know that. Jesus had 12 and look what happened! [not that you're Jesus sister, but hey] Anita, you rock! And I don’t know how many people could second this—I’m sure many over the years, but you’ve helped me tremendously over the past couple years. Please please know that. I know numbers or a lack thereof can be discouraging, but it’s not what it’s about; you know that. Jesus had 12 and look what happened! [not that you're Jesus sister, but hey]

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