Comments on: Part 7: I Need Help http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/part-7-i-need-help/ Counterculture. Faith. Love. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heidi Miller http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/part-7-i-need-help/comment-page-1/#comment-2254 Heidi Miller Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:38:13 +0000 http://www.loveisanorientation.com/?p=966#comment-2254 Andrew - My husband and I are currently in a very tight financial situation or we would give like crazy! I do want to know though, is there an event or something I could organize for my friends who would be interested in giving? Have you done anything like this in the past or do you have any promotional materials I could show/display to do something like this? I want to help however we can!!! Andrew – My husband and I are currently in a very tight financial situation or we would give like crazy! I do want to know though, is there an event or something I could organize for my friends who would be interested in giving? Have you done anything like this in the past or do you have any promotional materials I could show/display to do something like this? I want to help however we can!!!

]]> By: pm http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/part-7-i-need-help/comment-page-1/#comment-2233 pm Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:56:09 +0000 http://www.loveisanorientation.com/?p=966#comment-2233 While this isn't a post about finances, it does relate back to the feelings one man felt and how he kept silent behind the door. How much pain must a person endure before they can speak of their terrible hurts inside? There was long ago a man who lost all of his hope to connect within a trusting circle of family and friends. We have some very cryptic insights tucked away in verses 33 and 34 of Job 31. It briefly touches on the melting away as a man hides inside, and this unbroken silence due to family contempt against this one lonely man becomes a place of unbroken isolation ... all from one fateful decision. More than frustration, it points to a man who lived in the shaddows of his once place of openness. Nothing could have prepared him beforehand to engage in another conversation as he left his home, his family and his potential behind. While this isn’t a post about finances, it does relate back to
the feelings one man felt and how he kept silent behind the door.
How much pain must a person endure before they can speak
of their terrible hurts inside? There was long ago a man who
lost all of his hope to connect within a trusting circle of family and
friends. We have some very cryptic insights tucked away in
verses 33 and 34 of Job 31. It briefly touches on the melting away
as a man hides inside, and this unbroken silence due to family
contempt against this one lonely man becomes a place of unbroken
isolation … all from one fateful decision. More than frustration, it
points to a man who lived in the shaddows of his once place of openness.
Nothing could have prepared him beforehand to engage in another
conversation as he left his home, his family and his potential behind.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/part-7-i-need-help/comment-page-1/#comment-2231 Kevin Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:48:03 +0000 http://www.loveisanorientation.com/?p=966#comment-2231 Sam - You can send a check/money order to: The Marin Foundation 700 W. Bittersweet Pl. Suite 208 Chicago, IL 60613 Sam – You can send a check/money order to:

The Marin Foundation
700 W. Bittersweet Pl.
Suite 208
Chicago, IL 60613

]]> By: Sam http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/part-7-i-need-help/comment-page-1/#comment-2229 Sam Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:27:22 +0000 http://www.loveisanorientation.com/?p=966#comment-2229 Thank you for being the arms and hands of God to help one of His children. How frightening all of this must be for Alex! Maybe it's on this site somewhere - but could you post a mailing address where we can send donations by check or money order? Thank you for being the arms and hands of God to help one of His children. How frightening all of this must be for Alex!

Maybe it’s on this site somewhere – but could you post a mailing address where we can send donations by check or money order?

]]> By: Debbie Thurman http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/part-7-i-need-help/comment-page-1/#comment-2227 Debbie Thurman Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:19:35 +0000 http://www.loveisanorientation.com/?p=966#comment-2227 "If not The Marin Foundation, than who would Alex have turned to? It’s a haunting answer to think about …" Agreed. Thank you for being there for Alex. This ought to be a sobering opportunity for assessment for all Christians. Why can't folks like Alex turn to their churches for support? That is exactly where the help ought to be coming from. Instead, many will silently (and some not-so-silently) blame Alex for what happened to him. Shame on all those who turn their backs on the ones we most need to love and help. “If not The Marin Foundation, than who would Alex have turned to?
It’s a haunting answer to think about …”

Agreed. Thank you for being there for Alex. This ought to be a sobering opportunity for assessment for all Christians. Why can’t folks like Alex turn to their churches for support? That is exactly where the help ought to be coming from. Instead, many will silently (and some not-so-silently) blame Alex for what happened to him. Shame on all those who turn their backs on the ones we most need to love and help.

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