We slowly drive by another of the many Emergent culs de sac.

Here is the end of "community". A movement that began as a plea for generosity, acceptance and diversity now decays into an adolescent demand for indifference on the part of others. Like Marie, like Trucker Frank, there is no personal deficiency the "love of Christ" must not endorse. The church must validate all their personal defects.

The problem is always other people and their "boxes". Here you have yet another resentful woman who cannot build a community with one other person in order to form a simple marriage. In this she has failed twice. And emerging from this personal failure she demands a new kind of community.

It is hard to imagine a more aggressive egoism. And there are precious few who can fully "appreciate her reality".

The problem is never their own, it is always "the paradigms people try to confine you to".

Finally, at the ripe old age of 45, i've come to accept that most people aren't going to be comfortable with the fact that I don't fit their boxes; and that I will never fit them. So be it. I've stopped proclaiming or explaining myself to people, unless they are among the precious few I feel can truly and fully appreciate my reality, whatever it is.

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I have been in churches of all stripes, organizations, bands, and multiple intimate relationships, but I never found on anywhere near this scale the profound acceptance I have among these people whom I see only once a month, for the most part. It has been literally life-changing.