“Like falling for someone, sometimes falling away from someone takes time. And I think that’s okay. But slowly, too slowly, I will convince myself that I deserve better. Slowly, I will pick up myself and move on. Slowly, I will look forward to the day when I finally ignore your texts, your tweets,…”Tagged: Letting Go, Texting, Moving On, Leaving People Behind
“Remembering means taking the good with the bad, the happy with the sad. It means living in shades of grey, rather than in the shade of certainty.”Tagged: Grey, Memory
“Fall in love with a guy who makes an effort. The guy who doesn’t throw in the towel when things get hard, who doesn’t storm away and run when you have a disagreement. A guy who is willing to sit down and talk through shit, even when it’s uncomfortable or hard. A guy who is always honest, always…”Tagged: Love, Relationships, expression, Falling In Love
“Singleness is just a state of being, like what color shirt you are wearing, or what hair style you are currently sporting. It isn’t inherently good or bad, it is totally value neutral!”Tagged: How To Be Single Again, Being Single, The Single Life, Alone, Lonely
“Even back in high school, when my other friends would have some significant other to hold hands with on their way to AP European History, I was holding hands with my textbooks or a giant bag of cookies I smuggled out of the cafeteria.”Tagged: How To Be Single Again, Being Single, The Single Life, Alone, Lonely
“This world is a beautiful place in which you are one integral, invaluable, in-substitutable part.”Tagged: Self-Love, Love Yourself, Forgive Yourself, For When You're Feeling Down
“You are worthy of everything you have, and everything you dream of. Don’t let any person, any advertisement, any pessimistic thought tell you otherwise. You are whole, today. You are enough, today.”Tagged: Self-Love, Love Yourself, Forgive Yourself, For When You're Feeling Down
“You are a unique collection of cells and energy that will never again be recreated on this planet earth. In that way alone, you are worthy.”Tagged: Self-Love, Love Yourself, Forgive Yourself, For When You're Feeling Down
“Kids are killing themselves because they have been convinced that they fundamentally don't have a place in this world. If you think that God prioritizes caring about what gender someone likes to kiss over that, then you've somehow gotten so off track that the religion you are practicing bears no…”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“I don't have to have internal struggles with my morality, my sense of self, or my worthiness. I just am. In that way, being gay is both irrelevant and critically important in my life. And maybe that's how God sees it, too. I suspect that people's sexuality is irrelevant in terms of the theology but…”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“Having a sexual orientation should not exclude you from said religion. Being gay and being Christian should not be exclusive objects. They should not be black and white.”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“I became happy when I came out. I became happier when—I admitted I was gay, when I finally accepted and found peace in myself. Eight years ago, when I prayed to God wishing to be happy, I was unknowingly praying for the courage to come out.”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“My homosexuality does not merely coexist with my religion—it is dependent on it.”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“'Many people claim Paul condemns women serving in church leadership...but what they are missing is what he did do. He urged the church and people to treat women with levels of respect never heard of before in the ancient world. Only few today would interpret that as a condemnation of women serving…”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“Changing identities is hard. Trying to bend key characteristics of yourself away from preconceived notions and toward reality feels quite a bit like bending sheet metal. It poses quote a bit of opportunity for breakage—especially heart breakage. Change is hard. Change is scarring. Change can be…”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“If St. Paul saw what existed today, I'm quite confident he would not write the same words again. If he saw loving relationships between two men or two women who loved each other and wanted to experience life together, I think he would see that merely as another expression of God's love.”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it. [Ezekiel 16:49] There's nothing in there about having…”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith
“The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah had little to do with loving, same-sex relationships and everything to do with inhospitality and greed. Their evil had little to do with their sexual orientation and everything to do with their hearts.”Tagged: Christianity, sexuality, Being Christian Is Gay, Faith & Sexuality, Faith