M> Actually, if you write to Phil Barter here on Fido, I believe he can
 > arrange it - just tell him you want to be on the same recovery e-mail
 > list that Judy L./Matrika is on.
Thanks Judy, I have done that!
On another subject, I was reading your comments elsewhere about how even
before your recovery, you were always religiously inclined, but that your
church has been more of a hinderence than a help in your recovery....
I have found this also. I was raised a Roman Catholic, but later got involved
with a Southern Baptist church, became 'born again' many years ago. Later got
disillusioned because of the strident conservatism (both political and
theological) that I observed.
Anyway, I have found...and this has been quite a revelation to me...that God
'as I understand Him' is quite different from the God of the denominations I
had been exposed to.
In my heart of hearts, I believe that God cares relatively little about our
stance on various doctrinal issues. I don't think it is of overwhelming
importance to Him whether we believe or not in a trinitarian three-in-one 
od.
I don't think my stance on biblical inerrancy keeps God awake at nights.
. Heck, I'm not sure it's of overwhelming importance to Him whether we
identify ourselves as Christian, or Jewish, or whatever! (Yes, I would be
marched out of any decent Baptist church for saying the above).
God as I understand Him is much more concerned about whether I walk humbly in
love and obedience to Him...and whether I love my neighbor as myself.
I think we are all going to be pleasantly surprised to someday discover how
very little all this other stuff matters to God.
My understanding of God in these terms has meant a great deal to me and to my
recovery.
 -- SPEED 2.00 [NR]: Proof that God has a sense of humor: We have one.
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