Friends

I realized how lucky today I am to have friends in every aspect of my college career. I have friends I met my first day on campus, friends from work, friends from church and friends from being involved on my campus.
My friends from my first day on campus will always remain some of my best ones. I have confided in them when I need to and they have lifted me up on days when I needed them. My friends from church have carried me when I was low and I have carried them when they were as low as I was. This is what I wish the world could be like all the time and everywhere. I have never felt this way when I am alone.
You know that feeling where everything feels right? Where you don't have to worry about tomorrow or yesterday? Where you feel safe and know you are doing the best you can. There is a word for that feeling. It's called love. L-O-V-E

Courage!?!?!?

A few days ago our Bishop came to speak at our local church known as CTK. In his talk he mentioned same-sex member and deferred us to a group known as Courage. With a helpful Google search I found out about this ''group". What was thought to be a support group to have us live with being Catholic and being gay. NO! WRONG! It is a conversion group. A group dedicated to making me and fellow LGBT community member either straight or celibate for life. Its mission as it stated was to show the holy aspect of being celibate if you are a same-sex attracted individual. They won't even us the words gay or lesbian, because that makes it final. What hurts even worse is that a friend referred me to this group. A friend I had confided in. A friend that said he was supportive and I could always come to him for help. He told me about this group and was ecstatic that there was a group for me. I won't be afraid to admit it, I cried. I was told by a 'close' friend that I am wrong. I am a deformity on this Earth.

I refuse to believe this. “the eyes of your heart be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” (Ephesians 1:18, 19) This doesn't say anywhere in it, 'only the straights'. We are all loved by God. He does not make mistakes and he made us. I won't deny what God meant me to be.

Why a blog.....

Firstly, I will tell you about myself in a nutshell. I am male. Caucasian, 6'3", college student, LGBT community member, and Catholic. I want to do this blog to mainly pass on any help I can. I firmly believe that there is a thin line between words and wounds. But I also firmly believe that they have the power to heal and inspire. If these words reach out to anyone, then I have done something wonderful. Please read on when ever I have new posts and either be inspired or helped in any way.