Lesa
Howdy All
My name is Lesa and I am a recovering cult member.
I grew up in the World Wide Church Of God “The Church” and I think is many ways it stopped me from being the person I was supposed to be .. I will read all your stories and then write some of mine and why I feel the way I do .. I was born into “the church” in 1965 .. I attended until the late 80s .. I never got baptized because a minister pissed me off about not being baptized (I will tell more later.) After I left “the church” I still loved God with all my heart .. but as time went on a new person was born in me that questioned everything we were not supposed to .. and now I feel I have two people living in side of me when I look at everything in life: One side of me looks at it with “the Church” or God in mind and the other side the new side looks at it as if there is no God .. or maybe a different God than the one that I was raised to believe in .. maybe even a God that writes NO BOOKS.
Anyway .. when I get inspired to spill I will here after I read some of your stories .. a large part of my family still goes to “the church.” My mom is one of them .. she is just recently able to hear my non-believing side talk without telling me it’s the DEVIL .. I told her the devil gets way to much credit for evil people doing bad things .. maybe we should just blame the people that do these deeds and not “the devil.”
More later.
Your sister in a new way,
Lesa From Houston