My friend Frank, aka Agent SoapBox (grin), wrote about his experience and the live-in program Love In Action (LIA). Most of what you read about LIA online is very negative but over the years I have met quite a few people who found the program to be very helpful. Frank shares about the first night he arrived:
That night, I arrived at the house I was staying in, we sat at the dinner table, shared some praises and prayer about our day and bonded. I went to my bed and fell soundly asleep. It had been about 30 some hours I had been awake in total so I was dead tired. But before I fell asleep I remember breathing a sigh of relief and thinking “wow, I really made it. I’m finally safe.” I didn’t have to hide anymore, I didn’t have to worry about people rejecting me for being tempted with homosexuality, and I didn’t have to worry about people labeling me something I didn’t identify with. I could be totally honest about everything, and they could handle it. I was safe.
There was no seances, no electro-shock therapy or lobotomies. Here is what a typical week looked like …
Click here to read the whole post. Thanks for speaking up Frank.
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