I once loved the fact that prayer (one who prays) and prayer (a devout petition to God) are the same word, as if the person and their entreaty are one and the same. I was a devoted prayer. My prayers were frequent and serious, often on my knees and accompanied by uncontrolled tears. I prayed hard and believed hard. That is, until I realized that the answer I received from God was always the same.
Would love to connect with you. Sadly, the Catholic Church has been poisoned at the top by Father Martin. God didn't do this, society did which is made up of imperfect broken people. Might I suggest Magnificat and a break from church. As a fellow Catholic, the church's POOR response to our family situation in a CATHOLIC school extremely similar to yours, broke my heart, the other half as our child broke the first. It's then that you turn inward and continue to pray silently. He's there, but your daughter is not ready and needs to be ready. She has her whole life to turn this around. This seems like a forever time, time goes by, but to God, it's just a moment. Try to find your joy, and you might have to dig and find support groups if you can. The "no" could be, a "not until your daughter is ready too for ME." Her reflective years are yet to come. Please feel free to connect with me - www.bornfemalesormales@gmail.com
I hope you will make it through this time, and I will pray daily for your daughter's eventual rescue, since your pain is making it too hard for you to do. Remember that our Lord, when in his agony he sweat blood in the garden asking "please let this cup pass from me", received the same answer you did. He is not oblivious to your pain.
I stopped believing in any gods long ago. I think it makes a person less susceptible to cults. Like the gender cult. If you have magical thinking as one of your go to resources, Be it religion, multi-level marketing, the power of the Law of Attraction, etc., you will be more susceptible to other cults like the gender cult or QAnon.
I'm sorry for your pain and that of others on this site and those commenting on this page. The "no" answers to prayer are always the hardest to understand and accept. We have a real enemy who hates us and uses those “no” answers to drive us from God. The enemy is the father of lies who comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but appears as an angel of light with false solutions and misplaced hope. The transgender delusion is a perfect example of that.
God’s ultimately purpose in the “no’s” is to get us to “loose our religion” – to give up on man-made, man-centered religions, to strip us of everything that comes between us and having a personal relationship with Almighty God, and to know Him as Father by believing in the complete and permanent sacrifices made by His Son, Jesus the Messiah. God loves us with a perfect love, cannot lie, never changes, and wants us to know the truth. Jesus said He is the truth, and the truth will set us free.
Give up your religion, but don’t fall the enemy's trick and give up on God. Ask Him to show you the truth, to reveal Himself to you as He shows us in Scripture. That is a prayer He loves to say “yes” to. Get into the Bible to discover the real God for yourself. Psalm 103 is a great place to start.
I continue to pray for you, this group, and your sons and daughters. God bless you all.
It's a tough road to hoe. I've seen people leave God leave over their children's transition, had people ask "how can you still believe?"
And I've seen people come to faith over it as well.
Free will exists. So does evil.
The church, for all its faults, is the one institution still standing that can fight back against this Hell. What are you gonna do, call on the Universities or Child Protection or Psychologists to save us? What other organized, well, *anything* can kill this fucking demon?
Out of the ashes, the Church will be the last one standing. Bet on it.
I hold your pain. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I want to just say that you seem to have left out the fact that God lovingly gave us free will. We have free will to choose the good....but also the bad. The prayers that you give as an example of God saying no really are the people in your life making choices that probably aren't what God wants! When Jesus wept at Lazarus' death, it wasn't just because his beloved friend was dead, but that the world was so far removed from the original plan. The Pain, the suffering, the selfishness, the anger,, the hurt....We are God's beloved daughters and sons and He wants nothing but the best for us. We don't follow his path and that's the sad part. I will pray for you and your daughter. Don't ever forget that God loves you more than anything.
Our mother Mary lost her husband, and her son was hung on the Cross like a criminal. Christianity does not promise that our prayers will be answered. It does not promise that we will not die or suffer. It does promise that death and suffering will not have the last word. Offer up your suffering on behalf of your daughter, whom you love so much. Perhaps you could find company in the St. Monica group, or perhaps the Catholic mothers and fathers here need to accompany each other and pray with St. Joan of Arc. (I do not have a family member affected by this insanity, but I have followed this topic since I encountered a badly behaving male in the women's restroom as a young adult. I grieve when I see pride flags at my child's middle school because I know it means the loss of innocence for so many children.)
I am a 65 year old grandmother and I read these stories because I hate this cult and want to understand how it is impacting families. I am so touched by how you support each other as you experience this dark and frightening journey. Our parenting path has had its dark times, but we did not have this level of threat to the well being of our kids roaring outside our home. My heart goes out to all of you. Don’t give up on God. Keep crying out to Him. Jesus suffered on a cruel cross for you so He understands your pain. He is there whether you feel him or not.
Keep praying, just keep praying and believing. Don’t give up on God. He hears prayers, but answers in his way, his time. And sometimes that’s no and sometimes it’s not yet. I’ve learned to pray for comfort instead of wishes, for help instead of changes, and those prayers are always answered in the affirmative. God hears our prayers!
I hope you find happiness and peace without leaning on the god you were fed as a child. I think it's easier to have a religion, and worship a manmade god - there are many.
Butt the liberation of free thinking is life-enhancing. With love.
The Church of Gender Identity casts a cathedral-sized shadow over the entire campus - this is genius. Thank you for such great language. God is not unfaithful. Humans are. I would ask that you put your disappointments and cynicism aside and take a fresh look at Him, but not through statues and church doctrines, but in His Word. He is hiding in plain sight there. He loves you and He has all the answers you need for yourself and for your daughter. “For the grace of God has appeared and offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.” (Titus 2:11-12). He saves and He orders our lives, turning us upside right in this upside down world.
My heart is with you and all families dealing with this. ROGD is the cult that takes a sledge hammer to a family, to religion, to logic and all we know to be natural and good. Pray, scream at the universe, walk in nature, cry until you are spent- whatever it takes to survive this- but please survive.
God didn't make your husband cheat and then leave you. Your husband did that. God doesn't have the power to make your daughter believe or stop believing she's transgender. That's true if you're religious or if you're an atheist. People make their own choices. Seems to me, a lot of choices other people made around you, ended up severely hurting you. I'm sorry you're hurting. As it was in the beginning, it is now and every shall be, about the choices we make, even the ones out of our control. I am really sorry that you lost your faith in God and your family has been a source of grief. As a Catholic myself, whose family had some really bad experiences with the Church, I'm sad you're making the choice to abandon religion...but I am not convinced you are..... entirely. After all, you care about religion enough to make this post. I think you're feeling hurt by God because your prayers weren't answered and you feel abandoned by God's providence. I think you're lashing out at him for what others have done to you. I think God may be the only one you really can lash out at right now. I think God knows that, too. That was the entire point to Jesus suffering for our sins. Even if you don't believe you can still pray. Who said only believers can pray? The only thing that could make this article better, is addressing it to God and all of us on PITT, cause this is what you want to say to Him, if you believed in Him.
Would love to connect with you. Sadly, the Catholic Church has been poisoned at the top by Father Martin. God didn't do this, society did which is made up of imperfect broken people. Might I suggest Magnificat and a break from church. As a fellow Catholic, the church's POOR response to our family situation in a CATHOLIC school extremely similar to yours, broke my heart, the other half as our child broke the first. It's then that you turn inward and continue to pray silently. He's there, but your daughter is not ready and needs to be ready. She has her whole life to turn this around. This seems like a forever time, time goes by, but to God, it's just a moment. Try to find your joy, and you might have to dig and find support groups if you can. The "no" could be, a "not until your daughter is ready too for ME." Her reflective years are yet to come. Please feel free to connect with me - www.bornfemalesormales@gmail.com
I hope you will make it through this time, and I will pray daily for your daughter's eventual rescue, since your pain is making it too hard for you to do. Remember that our Lord, when in his agony he sweat blood in the garden asking "please let this cup pass from me", received the same answer you did. He is not oblivious to your pain.
Kyrie Eleison.
I stopped believing in any gods long ago. I think it makes a person less susceptible to cults. Like the gender cult. If you have magical thinking as one of your go to resources, Be it religion, multi-level marketing, the power of the Law of Attraction, etc., you will be more susceptible to other cults like the gender cult or QAnon.
Not sure if this will help but I offer it nonetheless. https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/practical-ideas-for-parents-of-gender-questioning-teenagers/?
thank you for that.
You're very welcome.
I'm sorry for your pain and that of others on this site and those commenting on this page. The "no" answers to prayer are always the hardest to understand and accept. We have a real enemy who hates us and uses those “no” answers to drive us from God. The enemy is the father of lies who comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but appears as an angel of light with false solutions and misplaced hope. The transgender delusion is a perfect example of that.
God’s ultimately purpose in the “no’s” is to get us to “loose our religion” – to give up on man-made, man-centered religions, to strip us of everything that comes between us and having a personal relationship with Almighty God, and to know Him as Father by believing in the complete and permanent sacrifices made by His Son, Jesus the Messiah. God loves us with a perfect love, cannot lie, never changes, and wants us to know the truth. Jesus said He is the truth, and the truth will set us free.
Give up your religion, but don’t fall the enemy's trick and give up on God. Ask Him to show you the truth, to reveal Himself to you as He shows us in Scripture. That is a prayer He loves to say “yes” to. Get into the Bible to discover the real God for yourself. Psalm 103 is a great place to start.
I continue to pray for you, this group, and your sons and daughters. God bless you all.
It's a tough road to hoe. I've seen people leave God leave over their children's transition, had people ask "how can you still believe?"
And I've seen people come to faith over it as well.
Free will exists. So does evil.
The church, for all its faults, is the one institution still standing that can fight back against this Hell. What are you gonna do, call on the Universities or Child Protection or Psychologists to save us? What other organized, well, *anything* can kill this fucking demon?
Out of the ashes, the Church will be the last one standing. Bet on it.
I hold your pain. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I want to just say that you seem to have left out the fact that God lovingly gave us free will. We have free will to choose the good....but also the bad. The prayers that you give as an example of God saying no really are the people in your life making choices that probably aren't what God wants! When Jesus wept at Lazarus' death, it wasn't just because his beloved friend was dead, but that the world was so far removed from the original plan. The Pain, the suffering, the selfishness, the anger,, the hurt....We are God's beloved daughters and sons and He wants nothing but the best for us. We don't follow his path and that's the sad part. I will pray for you and your daughter. Don't ever forget that God loves you more than anything.
Our mother Mary lost her husband, and her son was hung on the Cross like a criminal. Christianity does not promise that our prayers will be answered. It does not promise that we will not die or suffer. It does promise that death and suffering will not have the last word. Offer up your suffering on behalf of your daughter, whom you love so much. Perhaps you could find company in the St. Monica group, or perhaps the Catholic mothers and fathers here need to accompany each other and pray with St. Joan of Arc. (I do not have a family member affected by this insanity, but I have followed this topic since I encountered a badly behaving male in the women's restroom as a young adult. I grieve when I see pride flags at my child's middle school because I know it means the loss of innocence for so many children.)
I am a 65 year old grandmother and I read these stories because I hate this cult and want to understand how it is impacting families. I am so touched by how you support each other as you experience this dark and frightening journey. Our parenting path has had its dark times, but we did not have this level of threat to the well being of our kids roaring outside our home. My heart goes out to all of you. Don’t give up on God. Keep crying out to Him. Jesus suffered on a cruel cross for you so He understands your pain. He is there whether you feel him or not.
I am sorry for your emotional pain, and your loss of faith. I hope things work out better with your daughter than they did with my son.
Keep praying, just keep praying and believing. Don’t give up on God. He hears prayers, but answers in his way, his time. And sometimes that’s no and sometimes it’s not yet. I’ve learned to pray for comfort instead of wishes, for help instead of changes, and those prayers are always answered in the affirmative. God hears our prayers!
I hope you find happiness and peace without leaning on the god you were fed as a child. I think it's easier to have a religion, and worship a manmade god - there are many.
Butt the liberation of free thinking is life-enhancing. With love.
The Church of Gender Identity casts a cathedral-sized shadow over the entire campus - this is genius. Thank you for such great language. God is not unfaithful. Humans are. I would ask that you put your disappointments and cynicism aside and take a fresh look at Him, but not through statues and church doctrines, but in His Word. He is hiding in plain sight there. He loves you and He has all the answers you need for yourself and for your daughter. “For the grace of God has appeared and offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.” (Titus 2:11-12). He saves and He orders our lives, turning us upside right in this upside down world.
My heart is with you and all families dealing with this. ROGD is the cult that takes a sledge hammer to a family, to religion, to logic and all we know to be natural and good. Pray, scream at the universe, walk in nature, cry until you are spent- whatever it takes to survive this- but please survive.
God didn't make your husband cheat and then leave you. Your husband did that. God doesn't have the power to make your daughter believe or stop believing she's transgender. That's true if you're religious or if you're an atheist. People make their own choices. Seems to me, a lot of choices other people made around you, ended up severely hurting you. I'm sorry you're hurting. As it was in the beginning, it is now and every shall be, about the choices we make, even the ones out of our control. I am really sorry that you lost your faith in God and your family has been a source of grief. As a Catholic myself, whose family had some really bad experiences with the Church, I'm sad you're making the choice to abandon religion...but I am not convinced you are..... entirely. After all, you care about religion enough to make this post. I think you're feeling hurt by God because your prayers weren't answered and you feel abandoned by God's providence. I think you're lashing out at him for what others have done to you. I think God may be the only one you really can lash out at right now. I think God knows that, too. That was the entire point to Jesus suffering for our sins. Even if you don't believe you can still pray. Who said only believers can pray? The only thing that could make this article better, is addressing it to God and all of us on PITT, cause this is what you want to say to Him, if you believed in Him.
You got out just in time, word is that Jesus is now bi and non-binary...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUFqLEk_p9Q
Heresy.