I am trying to focus on some good things tonite.
Here are a few…
1. Phone call with my mom today. We laughed a lot.
2. I have four awesome kids and a very kind husband.
3. I am thinking about driving to Overland Park on Wednesday after work to listen to Bart Ehrman debate some other guy about the validity of the New Testament.
4. I received a kind e-mail from Nate Phelps – the atheist son of Fred Phelps. Wow!
5. Nate is going to be speaking in Topeka in April and I absolutely must go
I have been doing a bit of reading off and on about the Phelps family, and I have nothing but the deepest compassion for the sons and daughters of Fred Phelps. They endured a brutal childhood at the hands of a tyrannical father. This is not a good thing, but it is something that allows me to understand why they do what they do.
6. I still get e-mails almost everyday from people about the ‘apology letter‘. They are always extremely warm and uplifting.
7. Even though I have turned this whole atheism thing into a circus sideshow, it does result in me getting to hear from lots of great people who tell me their own stories of losing faith. Sometimes I think of putting them all on a web site so that everyone who has lost their faith can read them. Of course, I would never do that without getting permission from every single writer.
8. I am much tougher these days. I only balk at reading my comments four or five times a day as opposed to balking at reading them twenty or thirty times a day or not reading them at all for weeks at a time.
9. IT IS OFFICIAL! I have a family member – A REAL LIVE FLESH AND BLOOD RELATIVE – who rejected religion too. This person called a few days ago. It was wonderful to talk to uh… this person.
10. I had a pretty good dinner and now I am going to read a pretty good book.
So tell me, what are your good things?
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