your decisions March 8, 1999 Issue

How do you make big decisions? Do you discuss all the options with family and friends? Make long lists of pros and cons? Research all the ramifications?

While these may be useful steps, they may not bring the clarity necessary to make a confident decision. What's needed is spiritual light.

We hope you'll find that the prayers, spiritual study, and healing experiences authors share in this new column help bring the right choices and truly satisfying decisions to light in your life.

"Your decisions will master you, whichever direction they take." MARY BAKER EDDY

A perspective on homosexuality

Name withheld

Contributed to the Sentinel

SEVERAL years ago, I became involved in a long-term lesbian relationship. I felt that this relationship was a natural expression of love. I was also a Christian seeking spiritual growth, and for some time I maintained both concepts of myself, Christian and gay. Yet my spiritual journey ultimately led me to drop the gay lifestyle.

While a member of the gay community, I occasionally heard other Christians talk about homosexuality needing to be healed. I considered this view, yet never heard a sound argument as to why my lifestyle was sinful or incompatible with Christianity. I discovered that most gay people don't feel that a same-sex relationship, based on mutual respect, needs to be healed, especially when both partners contribute meaningfully to their jobs, their communities, and even their churches. This was how I felt, too. No amount of hearing "it is a sin" or "the Bible condemns it" was going to change my view. In fact, I wondered why those who opposed it couldn't simply show more tolerance and sympathy.

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