Your grieving resonates with me. I’ve experienced this also in similar ways. It’s good however to know that we, and so many like us have one each other for support and encouragement.

It’s like the scales fell from my eyes as that cliché goes. And that’s actually been a good thing for me.

All I can do today, and in each moment of every day, is carry compassion and real love for others in my heart with hope transcending the grief. Too, with courage to help those around me who are viscerally suffering from the prejudices of the church.