This post, along with this statement you posted on nicole wick’s blog: “Yet here’s the kicker : the pious part of me spent so much time judging the rest of me that I blocked the Holy Spirit from doing His work in me.”

I have hated myself since I was a child for dealing with this. Your statement resonates with me as some expression of reality in my life.

Thanks, David, for your openness and honesty.

Glad my particular brand of weirdness is good for the friendship too

Isn’t it remarkable how we are all defunct genetically and in need of Divine healing? Whether gay, straight, smart, stupid, fat or skinny we are all in need of saving.

You sir have fought, and at times probably still fighting, an exceptional battle. The lie of “gayness” is a particularly crafty one the Devil cooked up. It caters so perfectly to our need to belong and have identity. It neatly packages up all that that a person seems to lack when they don’t have the “belonging” and community that comes with relationship with Christ and His church.

God’s grace has allowed you to escape and that is amazing and a testimony of His love for the lost, regardless of their station; homosexual, glutton, drunk, whore…sinner in need of grace.

You are still a really weird Depeche Mode/Pet Shop Boys kinda guy but I REALLY love that kind of weirdness in a friend.

(maybe I should have just made this a post on my blog!

And I didn’t say I have any good dance routines….. Just ask Diane.