acceptance

Ok, so here's my point over these past few weeks: You can’t make God do for you what He did for somebody else and especially not in the way that He did it before.

Look at Moses and the whole rock thing. Hit the rock when you’re told to, and voila, we have water (Exodus 17:1-7). Hit it just because that’s what worked last time, and voila, you’re out of the Promised Land (Numbers 20:1-13).

I have the privilege of helping to moderate an online forum for women who struggle with same-sex attraction. One of the things that all the people in this ministry share is a history of hurtful relationships with their families, especially their same-sex parent. (With some of them, the major wound came from not connecting with their same-sex peers as they were growing up, but all of them have some level of difficulty with their parents.)

"As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, 'This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.'" Matthew 3:16-17