Saturday, December 20

Friends?

I was catching up on Facebook correspondence and forgot that one of my friends from high school had sent this to me.  We haven't been in real contact for about a year, so I was a little surprised as to where this is coming from:

"I have been so disappointed by you. You were always my example in conversion, taking big steps. Now you have done nothing but disappoint me. I'm not guilty of discrimination Mark, I'm proud to believe in and support God's laws. Now you have violated the most sacred covenants from the temple even and I'm ashamed for you. I know there's a way back, and that Christ loves you no matter what, but I'm not going to lie and congratulate you on giving in to Satan's ploys to drag you into misery...."

Hope that each of us are able to have people in our lives that, although they might not understand or agree with us, will still love and support us.

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  1. Wow Mark! Sorry for the insensitivity. It is good to have friends who feel they can speak candidly with us, but he is obviously not reaching out with the compassion a true friend would show.

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  2. Wow, thats shocking!

    Sorry you recieved that, i do wonder what a person who write something like this is trying to do other then hurt you. Writing this doesn't seem too much like following Christ's example.

    As bravone said, not something a true friend would do. true friends support and love.

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  3. wow, with friends like that who needs enemies, eh?

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  4. I wouldn't know this person from Adam, but it kind of sound like he's having trouble reconciling his idea of what it means to be gay with his idea of you, and he's trying to shock you into fitting one mold or the other. This Facebook message is awful and it shouldn't be couched; I'm just saying he may end up a better man in the eventual reconciliation. One can hope, right?

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  5. Man, I can't believe how horrid that message was. Your friend was totally out of line. This is your personal struggle and it's no one's job to criticize you for how you handle it or what you do (oh, ummm... except God? Which this guys is not). Are we not all beggars?

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  6. That's gotta be painful to hear...

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  7. Your high school friend is still a child who clings to blacks & whites in his view of life. After you work through the understandable hurt feelings, have some compassion for him as you would for a kid who's presented with a math problem far beyond his ability to understand. You wouldn't entirely blame the kid for getting upset. So it should be with this "friend" who still has some learning and growing to do before he acquires wisdom and experience. Be tolerant and patient.

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  8. I think I'll agree with what's been said here by everyone, and maybe you should try to kindly, gently encourage your friend to grow up a tad.

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