How Gina Colvin Stays LDS

[Sheldon]

Gina Colvin is the blogger at KiwiMormon on Pathos. Last year she decided to take a year off of church. She didn’t last six months. Read here at KiwiMormon why she decided to Stay LDS, and how she does it. Lots of good ideas for those here that are struggling.

[kate5]

That was a great article! Thank you.

[Ann]

Sounds like Thomas McConkie’s book was a big influence. I really enjoyed it.

I wonder if she actually considered committing herself to another church/religion/congregation. If I were to leave, I would need somewhere to go.

[DarkJedi]

Thanks for sharing. Although I was much more successful at taking a leave of absence, I can identify with much of what she says. This is particularly true for me:

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I’ll be there on Sunday because I don’t feel the need to believe anything I choose not to so that puts me under obligation to give others the right to believe what they want to. That means I have few expectations. I don’t feel the need to accept other’s expectations of me, I have no expectations of others. Allowing myself and others to believe how and where and what they may frees me to enjoy Mormonism and its teachings without feeling the fear that my very existence depends on it.

[LookingHard]

Thanks Sheldon for passing that on. Gina really resonates with me (or I with her?).

This brings me back to a thread where I posed the question Is a disengagement sometimes needed to engage?

It seems to me another case where a little time away helped her be able to come back and sit.

[GBSmith]

DarkJedi wrote:

Thanks for sharing. Although I was much more successful at taking a leave of absence, I can identify with much of what she says. This is particularly true for me:

Quote:

I’ll be there on Sunday because I don’t feel the need to believe anything I choose not to so that puts me under obligation to give others the right to believe what they want to. That means I have few expectations. I don’t feel the need to accept other’s expectations of me, I have no expectations of others. Allowing myself and others to believe how and where and what they may frees me to enjoy Mormonism and its teachings without feeling the fear that my very existence depends on it.

Sounds very similar to Armand Mauss’s point in his memoir. http://forum.staylds.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7370

[Roadrunner]

Loved this article, thank you so much for sharing.

[ReallyWantToStay]

Inspiring! Coming from someone trying to stay when the odds are stacked against them… Thanks for sharing [emoji4]

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