I'm going to be so excited when people start posting on this board the different things they have been experiencing and the conclusions they have come to and what they have been seeing. And please, post questions about things that you don't have answers for! Someone may have an answer to something you've been wondering about, and vice versa. If nothing else, I will pray for you and go through it with you!
This last year has been a pretty intense spiritual journey for me. I was saved before I joined the family in 1972. Many times during the 14 years I was in the family, I felt the presence of God strongly in my life. And when I left, things were so hard that I literally threw myself on Jesus because I couldn't find anyone else to throw myself on, and He caught me!
The one thing that I have come away with from this past year is an unshakeable faith that God really, really loves us ex-ers and truly desires to be a father to us. The more I examine my own feelings for my children - how I long for them to prosper and be happy, how I rejoice when good things happen and weep when they suffer, the more I am utterly convinced that God feels exactly the same way about us. He loves us deeply. We are his kids. He has our picture in his wallet.
Of course, I know that lots of people feel betrayed by God and don't trust him at all any more and if you just need to vent and tell all of us that, that's perfectly okay on this board. But eventually I hope everyone comes to realize that "He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" I love that verse!
Enough for now. Please go ahead and introduce yourself.
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