In the U.S. Armed Forces more than 14,000 men and women have been fired over the last 17 years because of their sexual orientation. ~ Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Dec 2010.

Sometimes I’d like to ask God why He allows poverty, famine and injustice when He could do something about it 
 but I’m afraid He might ask me the same question. ~ L. Strobel

An old man said, “Erasers” are made for those who make MISTAKES. A youth replied, “Erasers” are made for those who are willing to CORRECT their mistakes. ATTITUDE MATTERS!!!

If male homosexuals are called ‘Gay’, then female homosexuals should be called ‘Ecstatic’. ~ Shelly Roberts

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~ Malachy McCourt

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will crush my heart. ~ Pastor Leon Fontaine

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. ~ John Wooden

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.

Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes the reason is that you’re not very wise and you make bad decisions.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ~ Carl Rogers

Being gay is not a Western invention; it is a human reality. ~ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet.

It is strange that in our praying we seldom ask for a change in character, but always a change in circumstances.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. ~ Robert Frost

Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

The word “homosexual” did not appear in the Bible until 1946. (Revised Standard Version).

The Social Click at Church… Good or Bad?

This is a post from my official blog at https://mattstory.me The views on this post are mine and mine alone. Experiences are recalling different memories about it. You are free to agree or disagree, please do not shove it in my face. Growing Up in a Christian Home As far back as I can remember,…

Growing Up Gay

Most of you may know me as Mattie, but my real name is Matthew. I am a son of a previous Preacher, who lost his job due to a Youth Minister, who went behind my back and told the eldership that I was gay, before I came out and told anyone. This is my story….

Why do I say I am an Eunuch?

I am Larry G Rogers, known on the site as DadLarry, and I am an Eunuch. No, I am not an eunuch as defined by a current dictionary, I am an Eunuch as defined by Jesus in Matthew 19:12 “For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are…

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only one. Which one seems unnatural now?

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right. ~ Henry Ford

Blessed are the people who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it. ~ Joyce Meyer

Just because you feel fear doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Do it afraid! ~ Joyce Meyer

80% of people’s problems are about how they feel about themselves. ~ Joyce Meyer

Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do. ~ Joyce Meyer

You can suffer the pain of change, or suffer remaining the way you are. ~ Joyce Meyer

People will forget what you said; people will forget what you did; but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. ~ Andy Rooney

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won’t have a leg to stand on.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

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Shadowlight (2009)

Tears drop down this porcelain face as blood from sores of past memories forgotten, remembered. Pain unknown by mind brought forth suddenly  as to remind the soul “you cannot be rid of me” Shadow you daunt my view while light peaks around the corner of my hopes and whispers these are only dreams of you…

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Non-Existence

Who are you? You feel so far away. Who are you? I feel you in my blood. My veins. Are you there God? I’m crying out your name. Are you there? Well are you?! Do you even know my pain? Talk to me. God talk to me! Am I speaking to a wall? Where are…

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Transformed (2009)

I thirst to know you more as I fight through the crowds grabbing desperately for your feet, fighting is all I know. They say I’m not allowed near you. I can’t. I must leave. NO! Let me in, let me go! I will touch. I have to feel. I know you’re there, so close, you’re…

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My Other Blogs

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An Intro Into My Life And What’s To Come.

I came out when I was 23 and thought I had a solid foundation in Christ and my Christian faith. I spent a year or so writing for a website called lesbepure and of course blogged on my own blogs www.brokenandbruisedyetbeautiful.wordpress.com and then I lost everything. When I say I lost everything, I mean, mainly…

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Dreams

I’ve been beset by dreams lately. Mostly, they are about my career. I want to change. I want outta here! I don’t like call-centers. They are a pain. Out of 7.5 hour days, I’m on the phone about 50 percent of my day. The other portion, paperwork, is fine. I tend to like paperwork. I’m…

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Isaiah 59

The past two days I’ve been reading Isaiah 59. It is such a powerful chapter to me, because it answers so many questions. The most obvious would be ‘why has God forgotten us?’ This questions is posed by the world. Usually the secular world and carnal Christians. The answer begins in verse one: ‘See, the…

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Ecclesiastical Revelations

I’m almost finished this book and I can only say that it has been thus far: refreshing! It might be where I am in my life, in that I was so bored in my life and hated about half of my job. I have been so stressed with phones, that I thought that life couldn’t…

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Happy New Year!

God is good. I spent the New Years in Times Square, New York welcoming-in the new day with a million revelers! It was great. Party favors, cuzoo’s, lots of people howling, shouting, holding their cell-phone cameras, digital cameras, cups of beer and otherwise! What an atmosphere and I’m glad that God let me be a…

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Psalm 65: 4

My NKJV version reads as follows: “Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You, That he may dwell in Your courts.  We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple.” The word that strikes me is ‘courts.’ In David’s day, a ‘court’ wasn’t the place where lawyers…

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Random Thoughts

Posted on 14/11 09:36   Hi, back again. I do plan to resume my tale, which left off sometime in 2005, but with the election over, I still find myself thinking about the past– the ideas, goals and even words I wanted to try; but didn’t.   Though I’m 45, part of me still feels…

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It Has Been Soo Long

Posted on 30/10 10:25   Hi, all. This is Teri. It has been so long since I’ve been on here, and I finally decided it was time to come back. So I just sat down and started doing it. Let’s face it–I’m 45 now, and not getting any younger. My mind has whirled with so…

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Just Trying…

Posted on 12/04 10:42   I be back. Truthfully, before I resumed writing here I hadn’t thought about Alex in 3 years–when her pal Abby had contacted me out of the blue. It’s been 7 years, and my memories of the post-Alex period are hazy. I do recall the pain, and how I scrambled to…

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To Move On–Again

Posted on 06/04 10:09   My heart was jumping like it hadn’t in months, since Lynn had shoved me away. I was more myself in a controlled way, and I was sharing that with Tim & my kids. Just more proof that when the good juices flow, it can affect others, not just you. On…

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Moving Forth–Into 2004

Posted on 05/04 10:38   Holidays are, 99% of the time, my favorite time of year. I love Christmas, there is just this feeling in the air, the atmosphere of warmth–sometimes literally, when we come in from the snow to hot chocolate and a movie.Also, everyone seems just a bit nicer to each other, it’s…

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I’m Back – With My Story

Posted on 10/03 12:58   Hi, this is Teri. I know it’s been over a year since my last writing. But over the past few months, I’ve felt a little drain, monotony, from not trying things I’d really like to experience while in the flesh. Writing is what I do best, I think– better than…

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Wet Alcoholic, Dry Alcoholic

Posted on 01/01 23:52 For this entry, I take a break from my story, which now flows into 2004, and give part of my perspective on gay & bi-ness. As my title suggests, I compare it to alcoholism–only in reverse. With alcoholics, it’s said that when they are drinking, they are wet (practicing) alcoholics; which…

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Into The Fall

Posted on 01/01 22:31   The autumn of 2003 had to take some getting used to; as I’d been so accustomed to going to work & dropping the kids off at school til 4 or 5. Josie, now in kindergarten, would come home with me at 10:50; sometimes to take a nap before lunch, as…

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Pink ‘n Sweet – Alex

Posted on 30/12 22:47 This was a sharp turn into hope for me. My letter on Lifetime had generated a few responses; in fact, I had grown to depend on messages from this board for months. But this new one, dated August 29 (not read by me til 9/1) was one that stood out. The…

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Trying To Move On

Posted on 30/12 22:09 It was a warm August week, but I was not happy. Though I loved my job, and was upset to lose it, I think I was more upset at not seeing Lynn again each day. I knew she still didn;t want to see me, but I could still see her. I’d…

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Old Testament Thoughts On Hell

The first place where we encounter the idea of hell is in the Old Testament. It is called Sheol and is mentioned over 60 times. However it was not seen as a place of punishment. Instead it was seen as the common grave of all mankind. It didn’t matter whether you were rich, poor, good,…