I loved the grace and faith in your post,. Thank you for sharing your ups and down. My story is sadder and more discouraging. Right up until the explosion of my daughter's trans identity, I had a strong faith in a higher power, a spiritual force for goodness. But with my daughter's 'coming out' as trans along with all the medicalization,…
I loved the grace and faith in your post,. Thank you for sharing your ups and down. My story is sadder and more discouraging. Right up until the explosion of my daughter's trans identity, I had a strong faith in a higher power, a spiritual force for goodness. But with my daughter's 'coming out' as trans along with all the medicalization, pronouns, and threats of surgery, I feel completely, utterly abandoned by the god of my understanding. It's all I can do not to hurl curses at the sky.
Don’t walk away from God. He doesn’t offer an easy road, but he does promise to never leave us. He tells us that we will have trials but He has overcome the world. His plan doesn’t always look like we want it to, but it is good.
Your comment makes me cry. brings tears to my eyes. At the moment I can't believe in my own faith, but I do believe in your faith, I believe in the faith of parents like you, it is faith by proxy.
How interesting, today's verse from the Bible is just what she mentioned you above and I came here to share it in this platform. It is certainly for you and I, and for all of us on this journey. I'm not pretending that my faith hasn't been shaken or tested, or I haven't questioned God, or all that he apparently let happened in our family, but again and again, there's still no other Rock, no nothing other I could cling to and survive but Him alone. He is The Truth and Love. It is a broken world we live in, but He never changes and He is good, even though when there are times it is difficult to believe. If I/we must go through this hardship I want to go through with Him, because He never let me down - neither you.
"I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.]" John 16:33
I will be praying for both of you and your kids. We cannot control what happens when our kids become adults. We can pray and love and offer advice. But we can control ourselves and how it affects us and where we put our trust. I am grateful for the solid rock in the midst of stormy seas and I pray that you would find comfort in His love.
I can relate to your comment as most parents who are Christians can. I think we tend to believe that if we are faithful and true that nothing bad will happen. But the truth is that God gave us our agency. All men must learn to know the good from the evil. Our children are using their agency and it hurts because this evil tears families apart. I wish we could be spared from this awful pain that I never imagined would happen to my family but I am learning so much from it. I still pray to God and ask him to help my children remember who they are and to feel his love. I have left it in his hands. They were his before they were mine.
I loved the grace and faith in your post,. Thank you for sharing your ups and down. My story is sadder and more discouraging. Right up until the explosion of my daughter's trans identity, I had a strong faith in a higher power, a spiritual force for goodness. But with my daughter's 'coming out' as trans along with all the medicalization, pronouns, and threats of surgery, I feel completely, utterly abandoned by the god of my understanding. It's all I can do not to hurl curses at the sky.
I know how you feel, I felt exactly the same, without God it only gets worse , we need Him, He did not abandon you.
“This suffering person cried out: the LORD listened and saved him from every trouble.”
Psalms 34:6 CEB
https://bible.com/bible/37/psa.34.6.CEB
The miracle we need can only come from Him. Keep the faith and when it gets too hard ask for more faith. Take care of your self.
Don’t walk away from God. He doesn’t offer an easy road, but he does promise to never leave us. He tells us that we will have trials but He has overcome the world. His plan doesn’t always look like we want it to, but it is good.
Your comment makes me cry. brings tears to my eyes. At the moment I can't believe in my own faith, but I do believe in your faith, I believe in the faith of parents like you, it is faith by proxy.
How interesting, today's verse from the Bible is just what she mentioned you above and I came here to share it in this platform. It is certainly for you and I, and for all of us on this journey. I'm not pretending that my faith hasn't been shaken or tested, or I haven't questioned God, or all that he apparently let happened in our family, but again and again, there's still no other Rock, no nothing other I could cling to and survive but Him alone. He is The Truth and Love. It is a broken world we live in, but He never changes and He is good, even though when there are times it is difficult to believe. If I/we must go through this hardship I want to go through with Him, because He never let me down - neither you.
"I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.]" John 16:33
I will be praying for both of you and your kids. We cannot control what happens when our kids become adults. We can pray and love and offer advice. But we can control ourselves and how it affects us and where we put our trust. I am grateful for the solid rock in the midst of stormy seas and I pray that you would find comfort in His love.
Adding you to my prayer list as well.
I can relate to your comment as most parents who are Christians can. I think we tend to believe that if we are faithful and true that nothing bad will happen. But the truth is that God gave us our agency. All men must learn to know the good from the evil. Our children are using their agency and it hurts because this evil tears families apart. I wish we could be spared from this awful pain that I never imagined would happen to my family but I am learning so much from it. I still pray to God and ask him to help my children remember who they are and to feel his love. I have left it in his hands. They were his before they were mine.
I’m adding you to my prayer list. I will be praying that God shows you his goodness and that your joy will be complete in Him.