Legalistic Logistics

I ran into a gal I went to bible college with yesterday.  She seemed really uncomfortable in my presence.  I introduced her to my beloved, and shared a bit about how we just moved into the area.  He left us to catch up a bit while he grabbed some dog food.  She asked if we were living together, I said yes.  She asked if we were married.  I said no.  She asked if we had separate bedrooms.  I said no.  Then I told her that my beloved embodies everything that most "Christian" men aspire to be.  Just then my beloved returned, and we politely excused ourselves.

I find that this is a topic that brings discomfort as well as MUCH judgement, fear and avoidance from a large segment of the Christian population.  Because of this, I have written some blogs about some different viewpoints regarding divorce, remarriage and such from an open minded, yet biblical perspective.

Here is a book report that I wrote in Bible College for Marriage and Family Class.

My blog addressing the question of remarriage being biblically ok or not.

And here is a blog I wrote which deconstructs the idea of marriage vows.  If you are a Christian who is struggling with the idea of unmarried people cohabitating as if they were married, this is for you.  :)

Marriage Vows - Biblical or not?

At the end of the day, I don't care what people think of me.  I have my beliefs and values, and I govern myself accordingly.  What people think no longer dictates the choices I make in my life.

I still have Jesus, people.  But I don't allow legalism to get in the way of enjoying the gifts that He has brought into my life.  Especially my Beloved.  :)

Cover Photo

This Photo was taken by my lovely boyfriend, Keith. :) He whisked me away to Inverness Falls in the Whiteshell for my birthday last month. He is such an amazing person, I appreciate him so much!

Can't upload my video right now...

I am at the Hecla Island Oasis resort. I have made a video blog of it, but the internet set up is making it next to impossible to upload the video, so I"ll just give a short update.

I am on day 5 of the 60 day "he-tox" and today I got the "I'm so dissappointed in you" email from "him". It was so hard to NOT contact him yesterday on his birthday. OMG. But I know that to have what I want in life, I really need to stick to my guns on this. The email was a short one, and it said that there is a bigger email to come. *sigh*. Due to the tone of this short one, I'm expecting to be lambasted. Well, I guess that's a far cry from my fantasy of him apologising to me, and asking if we can talk things out. Perhaps, if he were to ask that, I should still impose the remainder of the 60 days, in order to break free from that unhealthy-ness part of our relationship so that I don't get sucked into this dysfunction once again.

He chose to distance himself from me for such a LONG time... what did he expect would happen as a result of that? Sheesh... I don't hate the guy, I'm actually just really disappointed in HIM as well... and I really want to be in relationship with someone who wants a real relationship with me. Is that too much to ask?