Posts Tagged ‘friendship’

Ending the Year Right

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

It has been a few weeks since I lasted posted a blog entry, but I do hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that 2010 is even better for you than 2009. This posting is going to be just to give some updates on things going on in my life. I have been well, but very busy. I did have a good Christmas, even though I missed Christmas Mass. I was planning on going to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, well I guess technically it would have been Christmas day, but they didn’t have it this year. I know my parents used to go to it often, but for some reason this year they did not have it. We do have a new priest, maybe he just did not want to have a midnight Mass. I did make it to Mass on Sunday, which was nice. I did wake up late and ended up having to go to another Church than I normally go too. I ended up at a church on the other side of town, which I have never been to. It was a very nice service and I think I will check out the other Catholic churches in the area. I think there are nine Catholic churches in my city. I am now planning to attend a few other Catholic churches just to see how they are. I now have attended Mass at three churches in my city. I will keep you posted on how this goes.

Other than that, I really have not been up to very much. I am thinking of attending an anxiety group soon. This group focuses on helping people deal with their anxiety. I found out about this in the church bulletin for the church I went to this last Sunday. This group is held in a city about 40 minutes from where I live. This is a long drive, but this group is much cheaper (including gas money) than paying a private psychology to help me with this issue. I figure it will not hurt anything to give this group an attempt to help me with this issue.

The Great Prayer Project – End Abortion is going well. The website is 90% completed and the sign up date for this project begins January 1st. Everything is set up and ready to rock and roll for the sign up phase of this project. I just have a few add-ons that I would like to add to the website prior to the time we have scheduled for praying to begin to end abortion. I do hope that you take the time starting January 1st to stop by this website, sign up for a 20 minute time slot to pray to end abortion.

I have also started work on Gay Catholic Information. I want to focus this website on providing resources and information about how one can live their life as being a gay Catholic. I want to provide information on topics like what the Bible says about being, what the Catholic Church teaches on homosexuality as well as providing examples of how individuals are living a successful life as a gay Catholic. If you have any ideas, suggestions or want to help out with this website, please send me an email or leave a comment below.

Beside those two websites, I have also started work on Only A Part – Gay Catholic Social Network. This is going to be a social networking website for gay Catholic. I think it is long overdue that there is a place for individuals who are gay and Catholic to have a place to meet and interact with others. I feel that it is important to provide a safe place for people to meet others and find friendship and understanding that I feel is something that can be very difficult for someone that is gay and Catholic.

As you can see that I have been very busy lately. I plan on continuing to work on all three of these projects in the upcoming year. If you have any suggestions or comments about any of these projects I am working on, please feel free to contacting me (use the contact page) or by leaving a comment below.

Did Jesus Encounter a Gay Couple?

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

A few years ago I purchased a book called What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D. The book is written in a gay friendly manner and explains some alternative thinking to what the Catholic Church teaches on the subject of homosexuality. Mr. Daniel A. Helminiak is a respected theologian and Roman Catholic priest (Taken from the back of the book). I’m not writing this article to question the Catholic Church teachings on Homosexuality, I’m writing it to get others perceptive on what Mr. Helminiak wrote on this topic.
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Spilled Milk

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

So I sit here waiting for a friend to get a hold of me to see if we are going out tonight. She asked me a few days ago if I wanted to go because she is lives in another city (she lives in another state) and I told her to get a hold of me if she was free. I guess she must not be free seeing its 10 pm now. I guess it is just another lonely Saturday night for me.

Anyways, I have not wrote anything for a few weeks now and figured this is as good as any time to write something. Recently I decided to stop going to sites like gay.com because there really is not anything there for me, or at least that is what it seems like. Most sites that identify themselves as being geared towards the gay population seem to be more sexual than many other sites. Has anyone else noticed this? How many gay sites have you been to that do not focus on sex? It does not seem like there are many out there.

So far, I have been doing well at not going to these sites. It has been about a week. The reason I go to gay.com and other sites primarily is for social reasons. I do not really have many gay friends and hang out with others whom are gay maybe 2 times a month. One is always Courage and once in a while I will hang out with someone I meet online. It just seems for some reason that there is a part of me that wants or maybe it is I need to relate to others whom are gay. Whatever the reason is, I just do not seem to meet quality people online very often and it is even rarer for them to live close enough for me to hang out with them. Don’t get me wrong, I have meet a few nice people in person that I first meet online, but it seems to be a rare thing.

I know this posting is not very positive, but today I am just feeling very lonely. I am sure part of it is that I was looking forward to spending time with my friend. Oh well, I guess it doesn’t really do any good to cry over spilled milk.

I do try to focus on the positives, so here are a few things that I consider to positives things going on in my life. Luke 18:1 is coming along nicely. I really only have to create the login and sign up pages. After that, I am going to redesign my business website. I just do not think it is doing the job or attracting new customers. I am also going to be working on a new website with a friend from Australia. I do not really want to discuss the details of that website yet, but I think it has the potential of being a very successful site.

Other than that, there really is not much going on in my life. I will try to come up with something to post on here again soon. Until then, I hope you have a great day!