Hey Everyone!
Yup, I'm back from my trip, safe and sound! I caught up on the board and left some responses way way down there :P Welcome back J, and welcome to all the newbies! Nash, I dropped you an email - sorry for not responding sooner, I was unable to access the board at all on my trip.

The trip was awesome! Definitely grew in faith, learned more about myself and my attraction, and even met some supper cute boys! Actually, a few really big things happened:

1) I came out to a priest out there who I will likely never see again. He was very understanding and everything. A very freeing experience - he didn't condemn me, but encouraged me to strive to holiness, and as boys can come in the way of my relationship with God, I need to learn to control my urges.

2) The control, he suggested, would come from "over bending" me the other way, so that I would be "straight" in the end (not literally :P). Therefore, he suggested that I avoid boys altogether for a little while as I "bend" myself back. This I don't think is because he thinks I'm a threat at all to kids, but that he really wants me to be free of the pain that this attraction can bring me and how it can separate me from God. Granted I can bring boys to God with my orientation (I actually helped do that on this trip - it was soo awesome!), but I see his point and the importance of looking over my own spiritual life first. This route likely isn't for everyone, or even most people, but in my life I think it is a good idea.

Well, its great to be back! Hope everyone else had a great summer. Check out the odd comments I left on the older posts if you like. Hopefully I'll be a little more involved this year ... hopefully ;) Talk to you all soon!

Graces of God,
Deliverance