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mommydama ([personal profile] mommydama) wrote2008-04-07 06:44 pm

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I need comments.

I've never been so needy in the comment department before. I haven't been commenting enough on other's blogs, I know. It is definately a reciprocal thing here in LJ world. Which makes sense...I'm just feeling comment needy today.

So...in order to generate a discussion as I seem to be desperately in need of one, ask me a question. Be anonymous if need be. I'll do my best to answer it.

[identity profile] rowannrose.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
That is all so interesting! I also come from a Baptist/Brethren background, and I have loved Christ for as long as I can remember... but for the past few years I have been searching for something 'more'... something that I do not see in any of the Protestant Evangelical churches around me. I believe I have found that something in Orthodoxy... you are right, after that first taste, it's like there is no turning back.

I am still waiting for my husband to embrace Orthodoxy, as it is my desire that we are 'together' in this, so it may be awhile before we're chrismated... and I have no idea how my family will react. They will probably be very confused. :)
Edited 2008-04-08 00:21 (UTC)

[identity profile] mommydama.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you are "waiting" for your husband. I really do know how hard that is, but it so important if at all possible. My other sister is in the middle of that right now. She has been Orthodox at heart for some time now, but her husband is not there at all. And may never be. She is patiently waiting and praying and just trying to keep them all together. I truly believe she gets major bonus points for her patience and endurance. Can't be easy for her husband either, but they are holding onto each other anyway. I (and she) just have to trust that God will bring them to them to the Truth, whatever that is for them at this point in time.

[identity profile] rowannrose.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
It is encouraging to know I am not the only one in the 'patiently waiting' stage of converting... my husband is not totally opposed to Orthodoxy, he just doesn't 'see' what I see yet, and still feels comfortable in our brethren church. I don't want to push him, so I just pray, and hope, and give him little tidbits of information here and there...

[identity profile] mairesue.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
My background is Brethren too.