Okay, this one I'm going to say for me, because I've been there and I hated it but I want you to know that I got past it and you can to.
I've always been religious. My family's not, I found my spirituality all on my own, and I think that's what makes my faith so strong. I started off Christian, and still am in some regards in that I see God as the Abrahamic God from a 'not quite christian' perspective now. But I started off Christian, and strongly so.
When I was in high school I realized I was bi, and then started dating a girl, and from that moment on my faith, my convictions, my ability to pray, all of it just evaporated. When I prayed it would be to a brick wall kind of feeling, and often halfhearted, but at the same time I desperately missed God. When me and her broke up and I started dating a guy I thought that it would come back, but it didn't. It's taken a few years, and me realizing that just because the bible tells me its wrong doesn't mean god does and I shouldn't hate myself for it. It also took me learning to live with that, and knowing that I am the way I am because I was created that way, and knowing that none of it mattered and that it was only important between me and God. It's hard to explain the exact transition because it was really really slow, but that was it sorta.
From someone who's been there: It's not that God doesn't love you, its that you can't face yourself enough right now to let him.
I don't know if you're going to find that helpful, I just needed to say it because I always get upset when I notice religious faith suffering because of sexual identity.
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