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Does Anyone Feel Like an Alien?
gmik:
When I became a "Christian" over 30 years ago, boy, I felt like a stranger in a strange town. Lost all my "friends", family thought I'd lost my mind etc etc.......
Now, getting in on BT which is way smaller than I ever wouldve thought, Here I go again.
Always knew I was an alien, but now its more like being a loner. Other than this forum, my son, and my husband (I know that sounds like a group to some of you)I have no one to share this with. The few I have tried, well, we all know what that turned out. I go occassionallly to my old church as my daughter and granddaughter attend, but she is not interested in any of this. If I quit going totally, it will be lonely.
I really don't like this elitest, smallest, chosen type feeling. But these are the daily trials and sufferings that we must go thru. At any given moment, eyes may open in my family. That is my prayer.
Sorry to have rambled on......
Patrick:
--- Quote from: carol v on July 02, 2006, 08:35:21 PM ---You hit home on this one Dana. I've recently found that my only 2 friends...well, God is taking them away. One is just too blind to talk to anymore. One, the man I love, is being revealed as a liar after I placed a whole lot of faith in his integrity. He's only half blind but still has no love of the truth apparently. I'm alone in a West Texas boonie town with my two teenage Egyptian sons...who also feel peculiar. Praise God.
Listen to the song "What's Up" by 4 Non-Blondes. I love this song. Listen to it daily. Even uses the word peculiar. That's how I've felt all my life until God started showing me why.
I let my 14 year old play his guitar at a Pentecostal church and he argued with the youth minister and told me that nothing he said made any sense. Now most parents would get upset and lecture them...not me. I thanked the Lord. He's peculiar too.
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Carol V, I went to trade school in that West Texas boonie town and have been to several snake round-up's; I "grew up" just a few miles West of there in Colorado City and Coahoma. I know a little about small West TX boonie towns. I left the West TX area several years ago; I'm now peculiar in an area of over 4 million.
jenny06:
I have always felt I was an alien. It was that or I was adopted. I opted for alien princess from another planet. Don't ask. child's fancy. From an early age I felt like the oddball even among my own family. I thought it was only because I was the youngest of seven and we had an age gap of ten years between me and the sixth. Now that we are all older, I have to say that if you put me next to my five sisters and one brother, all we have in common are outward appearance. I am the only one that was not baptized (Catholic) as a child, though I married a man raised Catholic and got baptized as an adult. That was not where my journey began, but that was a major crossroad toward my journey to where I am now. It was what brought me back to church. Mind you, I never set foot in a Catholic church as a child because my parents quit practicing around the time I was born. We left the Catholic church, which was my choice. We have tried various denominations over the years. I struggled with tithing being scriptural and whether the dead go straight to heaven, and other things. My husband will join a new church at the drop of a dime. I never felt drawn to join any church. Then I found this site. Praise God! ;D My husband is having difficulty absorbing it all. He went through catechism and the whole nine yards. My only early experience with church was voluntary attendance as a teenager. I feel that somehow I would stay long enough at any one denomination to absorb just what I needed or to meet someone else that would move us along our now joint journey. I know just where you all are coming from. Oh, and when I was young, my only friends were my animals. Anyone else? ???
carol v:
Hey Patrick...somehow it helps just knowing that someone knows where the heck I am ;D
Nothing like a rattlesnake roundup to know what a sense of humor God has!
Patrick:
Carol, the desire to evict venomous snakes from thier dens and gather them up to haul to market never became a desire to me. ;D
Everyone should get the rattlesnake experience; you will never forget that sound.
I'm glad it somehow helps you knowing that I know where the heck you are.
Go get some Gill's chicken and a cherry lime Sprite from Sonic. ;D
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