what does baggage mean?
that a Catholic priest attempted to sexually molest me when I went to him believing that confessing my sin of fornication should be forgiven?
that a "Lutheran minister" read to me a poem to mock Mary as the Virgin Mother and mock the birth of Jesus Christ as being a child of fornication?
maybe you are right, Gene E..to identify this as "baggage"
I was very confused and from my heart with all my heart only searching for truth and reality in a world that quite obviously is anything but..
sometimes I feel like I need to return to square one and start all over again..
My mother, who I had gone back to help because my father had threatened to take away all of my siblings if I didn't returned to the Catholic Church.
She told me while I was sitting beside her in church "you are not allowed to receive communion until you return to the Catholic Church"
Not that I was even going to..but you know what?
that was unbelievable to me.
I told my mother, "If I'm not welcome, then this is NOT MY FATHER's TABLE"
yes, you have hit a raw nerve here, Gene E. for me and I do hope and pray I might do the same for you.
Jesus is coming soon for HIS OWN.
there's nothing in this world worth holding onto other than HIM.
when I say "I love you" I mean it from my heart.
and maybe baggage in your own life could keep you from believing it.
I do understand.