My Disquiet Gene 5-29-12

With the changing barometer of time, many of us Gays will be more resolute as we accept ourselves as we are amid our intuition. We are healers and doers.I am grateful that I can acknowledge greater concerns. There are core values for human dignity The heartfelt experiences of my early happy home life while being rebellious at a Catholic elementary school may have quickened my spiritual insights.In his autobiography, brother Henry wrote, re St Joseph School," they were happy years for all of us." My undiagnosed disability to learn how to read caused painful learning blocks. Although I felt demoralized re my failure at school, I refused to allow that to dictate my worth. The tentacles of control from the church and school were far reaching. The crazed authoritarians came from the Vatican, the diocese, the local parish.The Apostle's Creed, was repugnant to me as a youngster and appalling to me as a spiritual seeker!