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I thought this article was interesting and found a lot of what the author experienced is similar to what many of us have experienced. Wonderful article about the true heart of the Gospel message, especially for those who feel broken. Thanks for sharing it.
Quote:Feeling out of place at work is one thing. Feeling like an alien at church is a whole other matter.
Feeling uncomfortable at church has probably been a good lesson for me. I’m realizing that there
werealways and willalways be people at church who are uncomfortable. I’m finally developing some empathy because I’m one of them. Thanks, Thoreau.
My solution is to fill up my life with so many other worthwhile things that feeling like an outsider at church is simply not uncomfortable to me anymore. It is something I do for three hours until it passes. And most of that time I spend it in my own little world, reading, decompressing, and silently planning my week, Recently I actually look forward to this odd form of “alone time” in public. The archaic lecture format we use in Sacrament allows you to sit there with your handheld device, reading whatever comes into your mind, jotting notes on whatever notebook you have, while one-way communication occurs over the audience. I belong in a lot other places that accept me for who I am, that it simply doesn’t matter if church doesn’t accept me anymore. It’s one place where you can be alone in public and its without the social stigma, provided you are reading on a handheld device so no one knows its not a manual.
Disengaging formats have their advantages
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