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“I’m gonna be blunt. Such judgments are why I unsubscribed from the blog and don’t hang around here much anymore. Instead of feeling that my perspectives were heard and really considered and weighed, I felt unheard and judged.”

Charis, I’m glad you are being blunt. It is important to state important feelings. However, feelings are not always truthful or filled with truth. Sometimes, feelings are fueled by some true past injustices from long ago that deeply wounded our psyche and then we forward on the feeling and pain where it doesn’t belong. I’ve been there, done that. And I’ve seen you do the same.

Your perspectives have been heard and considered. Some of them were great, some not so great. Just like the rest of us. If someone doesn’t agree with you, it should not be taken as a personal discounting of your person. Do not require people to have to agree with you in order to feel respected. KNOW that you are respected by many EVEN though they don’t tell you so and EVEN though they may disagree with you on some things. Let me tell you plainly, you are respected by myself and many other fellow workers in the Lord. Consider my experience on this thread. Only a couple people have bothered 🙂 to respond to anything I’ve said. I could easily think the same thing you said. But I know and understand that I am respected and sometimes other’s just click in communication and in God’s economy, it isn’t my turn. Nothing more.

I personally, have observed you mature in the Lord, and I’m blessed by your desire to study and search the Scriptures for truth. You are a great example of how a woman can be a good wife and mother and also be her own person and also be a good student of God’s Word. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. And don’t let the pains of your past tell you otherwise either. You are loved on the online blogs and forums you post on much more than you realize, even on the places you’ve thought you weren’t welcome.

Cyber hugs….