My best friend shared this post with me earlier this week. I’ve been reading it every day, sometimes multiple times, ever since. My wife and I are the “recent refugee”. We had to re-read it multiple times to make sure you somehow didn’t get our story from us through some crazy means. We just walked away “officially” from our church of 13+ years back in July and our story reads exactly as you wrote it. We’ve always loved “the one’s” and it eventually lead us to becoming one of them. Thank you so much for writing this. As we begin to try to move on and heal, it helps so much to hear words like this to remind us that we aren’t crazy but we are, in fact, discerning rightly.
I am sitting here absolutely stunned.
I recently inadvertently shared my experience with a friend telling him my story of harm with a local counselor.
Unknowingly, he was also seeing this counselor and several other people in my community learned the truth and are choosing to stay or go.
People have come to me saying thank you because they can now be safer. It’s been humbling and absolutely devastating.
Devastating because of the other stories like mine that I’m hearing. This really touched me. Thank you Ryan.
My best friend shared this post with me earlier this week. I’ve been reading it every day, sometimes multiple times, ever since. My wife and I are the “recent refugee”. We had to re-read it multiple times to make sure you somehow didn’t get our story from us through some crazy means. We just walked away “officially” from our church of 13+ years back in July and our story reads exactly as you wrote it. We’ve always loved “the one’s” and it eventually lead us to becoming one of them. Thank you so much for writing this. As we begin to try to move on and heal, it helps so much to hear words like this to remind us that we aren’t crazy but we are, in fact, discerning rightly.
Thanks for this.
Excellent article. Thank you