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[iowan woman]

Greetings. For several reasons I don’t feel I belong in this forum, I don’t wander in and read posts or you would be seeing my comments.

Nor will I read any comments to this post if they are made, not because I don’t care but because I cannot.

Over the summer, exactly four days after I joined the soulforce forum, I found a letter my girl wrote to her brother. He left it open in the living room; I admit I was a bad mother, I read it.
Soon afterwards I taped that letter into my statue of Mother Mary where it is today. I often pray in dance holding that statue with this intent: what can I do with my life to make this a better world for my children?

Anyway, a few of you know about the letter and were very loving in your response. I want you to know my girl finally told me she is gay one day as I was leaving for work.
It was a happy, joyful moment.

This group remains close to my heart.

[pnggrad79]

Iowan,
You belong here as much as anyone else here. I hope you reconsider. You have a lot of support here...We will miss you....:(

[Jennifer5]

I'm sorry to hear that you are leaving, but I understand that perhaps now is just not a time for all of us to be in you life.


I wish you the best, with everything :love:.

[paul]

Hi Iowan,

My first response when I saw that you had posted was, "Hey, there's Iowan woman, I haven't seen her around in awhile, I wonder what's up." That was my honest response.

I'm right in there with png (who I think of as "ping"), you do belong here. You've made some great contributions and wish you would do more. I know the virtual world is not as real as 3d, but I wish you would stick with us.:love: paul

[Gennee]

You belong to the forum because you have been a blessing to other people's lives.

Gennee

:love::love:

[antiochian]

I've felt similarly to IW, hence my long bout of hiding. I ask that same question of myself whether it's an online group or a group of 3D people at a party, a social gathering, even at family gatherings--do I belong??? Do people find me more annoying than beneficial? And this leads on to other silly questions that betray my weak sense of self-esteem: am I a person worth knowing, worth caring about, worth spending an afternoon with, worth loving? Am I one of the worst people on earth or am I not all that bad?

I guess it all boils down to this. I have to give others the chance to know me and care about me. I have to realize that I'm like any other person: I'm a mixture of good and bad traits, but I think the good far outweigh the other. And the people worth having in your life will realize that.

Iowan Woman, you seem like a neat person, may God always keep you. Your daughter is so lucky to have an accepting mom.