Earlier today on Facebook I put up a video up of a woman
singing two songs, The Lord is Blessing Me Right Now and Give Us This Day. I returned to the second song multiple times
today. What keeps drawing me back to it, is this verse.
"To go from here
And share this love
You gave to me
To show someone who's
lost
And help them find
their way,
The way to truth and
faith
So they can be free
Be free like me
Be free like me"
Her melodic voice on the last line, moved me to tears today. They were tears of gratitude that I’m free. I
thought of the day I decided to come out for good, it was a weight lifted off
me, no more hiding, no being afraid that my family would not find out from someone else No more
worries about staying in a church that said I was intrinsically disordered. At Tuesday evening community night mass at
College Seminary, when the
priest read the gospel for that evening with the verse "You shall know the truth
and it shall set you free" I knew I had been freed, no turning back for me.
I have family,
friends, job and church I love and been blessed by all along the journey by
many people. I’m out and open and free to be in all of dimensions of life. The reason I engage in a ministry in addition
to my full time job, it has been my calling to help other LGBT people to live
in truth and freedom.
For the last 21 years I have tried to be a liberating
minister /witness for my community, because too many LGBT people can't believe
that God loves them, which often leads to believing they can't receive love
from others. Fail love themselves or believe they deserve a loving relationship.
I want them to know that “God Is Love”, since she is all knowing ,is not
surprised by who they are, but he is waiting for them to recognize who are in
God. A valued creation of a empowering God.
I know that I'm
free! So many can't be free in Uganda, Iran, Nigeria, Russia, other countries
and even in the United States. I will not give up on this fight for equality
and human rights for LGBT people around the world. I look forward to the day
when they can sit in their home and cry tears of joy as they listen to the
words of this song. Knowing they can be free! Until then and beyond I will keep building a progressive
church in Tacoma. A faith community of LGBT people and our allies who
seek "Jesus and Justice" in freedom.
