[Gay State Conservative]

A warm welcome to you,Sally.

[stuartcr]

Does she explain why she hated the Catholic church?

[MarineBrat]

"Since then she has faced opposition from family members and shock from a socially-liberal artistic establishment. And, yet, “I’m still happier than I’ve ever been,” she said with a broad grin on her face."

It's not always easy to describe, but you know it when you've found it. :)

[PGR88]

Her publisher describes the former psychiatric nurse

I see the root of her conflict right there. Psychiatry, in my view, is simply a secularist religious cult that attracts mainly mentally ill people to its practice. It attempts to replace God with the Id, with the ego and super-ego, with habits, with electro-chemical impulses.

Of course, they can't do it. Its like they with to re-define what the ocean is, and then attempt to take people across the sea in a rubber dingy.

[livius]

Great story. I’m reading an excellent book, In The Light of Christ, by another Englishwoman, Lucy Beckett, about western literature and the concepts of beauty, truth and goodness as understood - as they only can be - in the light of Christ. Not a light read, and it helps to have a pretty extensive knowledge of literature and art, but an excellent book.

One of her ideas is that a sincere and honest seeker who is drawn by the beauty of the world and of the concepts in our finest art and poetry will come to Christ, if given an opportunity. This Canadian priest seems to have given our poet a chance...we must all do likewise when we meet people who are searching.

[marron]

But she refused to make the intellectual leap to Christianity, insisting to her priest friend that he would never convert her.
“He was very patient and very good.” He said, ‘Christ will convert you, I’m not going to convert you ... .”

That is the way it works. People aren't persuaded by our arguments, they are won by Christ himself.

[Jim Pelosi]

It’s all about planting seeds in the spirit. Christ will water them.

[stuartcr]

Sorry for the multiples. ..Stoopid mobile challenged

[stuartcr]

Sorry for the multiples. ..Stoopid mobile challenged