My experience as a church kid: Why I want out

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Originally Posted by Melo

If I'm being honest, I don't know if my qualms are with the LC or religion itself. I don't know where God is leading me, often it feels like He isn't leading me at all.

No one can tell you which way to go at this point in your life. Can you hang loose and let it happen?

When I left my head was full of questions. I've been answering them ever since, in hindsight with a leading, that pulled the rug out from under all that I placed faith in other than God.

Because I don't consider myself to be an evangelical, or fundamentalist, many out here would say that that leading was from the devil.

True, my mind has been expanded so that it can no longer fit into the LC, or any organized religion.

But that's just me. Your leading might be different. I've seen many leave the LC. They've all gone their own way. Some of them found happiness by letting go of it all.

I just hope that you too will find happiness, wherever you're led, if led at all. Sometimes you won't know you're led until looking back on it later.

As they say : Let go and let God. And just be you and be honest with your LC folks. Share your doubts and questions with them along the way. You've got to be you, or hide in the closet. The closet is not a happy place.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

Many blessings ...
Harold