TD: Re: [CS-FSLUG] God Didn't Say That

[David M.]

On Monday 10 January 2005 11:11 am, Stephen J. McCracken wrote:

> >>> If I went around hiding my hearing aid from people and acting like I
> >>> could
> >>> hear everything, would I be living a lie?
>
> A better analogy would be something like:
>
> Let's say that I had a broken arm with a cast on it.  Now, if I later
> take that cast off of my arm and walk around without it would I be
> living a lie?  Well, it all comes down to whether or not my arm was
> actually healed before I take that cast off of my arm.
>
> If God healed my arm and I DON'T take that cast off then I would be
> living a lie.  If my arm were NOT healed and I took that cast off then I
> still would be living a lie.  BUT if God healed my arm and I take that
> cast off then I would NOT be living a lie, but be a living testimony of
> the power of God to heal.
>
> I leave it to the reader to make the proper application in the current
> discussion.
>

IMHO, this isn't a good analogy. A broken arm doesn't even come near the 
emotional trauma one suffers from being different.

It wasn't until I was 16 that I even worked up the nerve to talk to a girl 
which was when I met my wife. She moved in across the street from me. It 
wasn't until that day that I actually worked up the nerve to talk to anyone 
outside my family. Matter of fact I paid my brother who was about 7 years old 
at the time a quarter to go over to her house and introduce us. And after 
this happened I went over there but first I took off my hearing aid because I 
was afraid she wouldn't accept me!

Then once we started talking and she got to know me for who I am on the inside 
and not the out, I then started wearing my hearing aid.

Understand what im saying?

I think the women on this list can relate to this in a huge way. 

Having said that, my whole point in my anology meant that has anyone here ever 
thought that this man chose to hide his lifestyle again to escape from the 
emotional trauma and persecution so he could be fully accepted and loved by 
the people he holds dear to him?

--
David M.