Been struggling the last two or three days with not wanting to do anything. I haven't been exercising, praying, doing spiritual reading, showering, blogging, or taking out the trash. I want today to be different, so I'm going to start with blogging and exercising, and then move down through the list.
This morning I have read a lot about gay people. I've never felt judgemental or alienated from gay people. I have found most of the gays I've met to be very likeable. I submit to the Church's teachings about the need to abstain from gay sex, just as I submit to her teachings about the need to abstain from any sexual intercourse that isn't between a married man and woman who are open to procreation as a part of their sexual expression. When I look at it that way, I can plainly see that there is no prejudice towards gays in the Church's teaching. Chastity in any walk in life will include a cross, but there is also spiritual growth and salvation in living chastely in any walk in life.
I want to start consciously embracing the crosses in my own life. I can do that with my food plan, with the FM/CFS, with living alone, etc. I can offer up the things that are painful for people who are bearing much harder crosses. I can offer up staying on my food plan for people who are starving and watching their children starve. I can offer up the pain of exercising with FM/CFS for the people who are in pain with cancer, arthritis, old age, or more intense cases of FM/CFS. I can offer up staying on my schedule when I don't want to for Christians in China who are being imprisoned and murdered for their organs and Christians in the middle East who are being murdered for their faith.
Okay, the talk is easy, but the living is hard, so I'm going to close this one out and start living my talk.
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