Lord, I pray for your healing.

Those who grew up gay or BL in the times I grew up, or who grow up as BL now, must experience nearly all love in the context of knowing that a little self disclosure could cause many of the ones who love them to reject and despise them.

It isn't my nature to fight with people, and I have never had a falling-out with a family member. But at a deep level, I am completely used to feeling their love as conditional, revocable, fallible, an artifice propped up by my careful cultivation of their ignorance.

Help us to recognize human love as genuine, and to know that if the ignorance of family members and friends fell through one level, and they rejected us as BL, it would only take breakage of that next level of ignorance, and their understanding of our real core values and natures, to restore their love again.

For those who have had family and friends accept them fully as they are, congratulations on your inspiring and daring triumph in showing love is real.

But Lord, let us recognize its full reality, even where it seems imperfect. We know your love is unconditional and all knowing, and it will be restored to those who have diluted it in the stress and deception of this world.