Let It Go!

"...the answer to our struggle is to let go of the need to feel important."



James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.33

Struggles after Repentance

...homosexual relationships and addictive behavior don't cease to be a struggle simply because they're named as sin and repented of.



Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 84.

Resign Yourself To It

" 'It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.... Resign yourself to be the fool you are.' "



A psychiatrist in The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot, quoted by James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.32

Healing--The Pain has just Begun

When we will to be free and submit the brokenness at hand to Jesus and His people, the pain has just begun. The wearisome pain of deception eases, but in its place is the pain that lies at the core of the homosexual struggle. The pain of rejection and deprivation, of abuse, of loneliness, of the anxiety built by years of feeling alienated within and without--that which we have tried to ease again and again through homosexual pursuits--this is the pain Jesus wants to get at in order to heal the heart.



Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 81.

We don't Want to See It

"The reason we have such trouble accepting ourselves as God accepts us is that we do not want to see ourselves as God sees us...a sinner capable of great sin."



James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.31

Willing to be Vulnerable

The first work of repentance is a willingness to be vulnerable, to confess that "this is a real problem that is really mine and that I cannot resolve on my own."



Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 80.

There Is No Escape

"The anguish of shame cannot be escaped. We can be drenched with praise and applause and it still remains. We can be morally perfect, flawless in our actions, and it is still with us. We can take a pill and wait for the pain to subside, but it returns when the drug wears off. The agony cannot be escaped, but it can be healed."



James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.29

Become Rooted in Jesus First

"...most people with homosexual tendencies need first simply to become rooted in Jesus and His community. It would be premature to insist that they immediately face squarely the specifics of sexual brokenness."



Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 75.

I Can't Believe It!

"Why do we find it easy to believe God accepts everyone else and hard to believe he accepts us? The answer is that we are filled with too much shame."



James Bryan Smith. Embracing the Love of God: The Path and Promise of Christian Life. HarperSanFransico: New York (1995). p.27