About Me
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My name is Bridget and I am openly gay to my family, friends and community. Though I haven't always been open about my identity, I did decide at an early age to no longer hide the very core of who I am as a gay person. It was not an easy decision but it was one that I knew had to be made if I intended to enjoy the gift of life. I have written a book called 'God's Lost Sheep, being gay and Christian' that started as an investigative journey over 18 years ago. I had been living life openly at the age of 23, but it wasn't until my early 30's that I had finally had enough of organized religion and sat out on the journey to find out for myself what God really had to say about my identity. The book begins with my birth and walks you through the innocence and discovery of coming to terms with something I was forced to change by the standard of society but was not capable of submitting to. I am open about the struggles, detachment and the anger I felt at God and religion. I loved God and wanted to preach at the early age of 7, but soon became disenchanted (disappointed by someone I respected) by religious rhetoric (persuasive teaching). By the time I became a teenager I could no longer deny what I knew to be the very core of my identity, I was attracted to girls. In the book, I talk about my earliest recollection of admiration for a woman (age of 5) and the real struggles of high school and trying to be 'normal'. I explain the importance of a strong foundation embedded (firmly planted) in God and how it prepared me for the reality of judgment and prejudice as I became an adult. I explain that hiding your identity doesn't only impact you, but it devastates those who chose you to love as a partner, you are detached because you know at the core who you truly are.
The book will take you on a journey through my eyes, not justifying my choice to live life gay, but to walk you down a path so many have traveled before me and those who are traveling it now. The most important point of view I hope for one to comprehend is that God is for you and not against you. Blind faith based on someone's else's interpretation makes people ignorant to the truth. They justify pieces of scripture without considering the entire context. They stand on the platform of judgment proclaiming "I have the responsibility to tell you God is sending you to hell" and earnestly believe God will punish or hold them accountable for not attempting to help you understand their belief. I am not calling people ignorant, I love many of them, I use it in context as 'unlearned and scared to think otherwise'. They earnestly love you enough to not chance proclaiming their belief as truth. It is the one's who turn their back on you that I firmly and unapologetically call ignorant. As we continue the journey I tell you of how it all came to a boiling point and my Pentecostal, pew jumping, tongue speaking, bun wearing paternal grandmother and I had a conversation that changed my relationship with God. It wasn't that I felt her answer would be right as much as, I was confident that my prayer to know the answer would be led by the Holy Spirit through her. I ran out of her house clicking my heels and shouting joy to the heavens, I have never felt so liberated.
I want each of you to know that I am 100% confident that I am not misleading anyone when I say, a relationship is between you and God only. I know with certainty that God and I have a relationship and when I pass from this world, God and I will be reunited. My belief is Christianity and I believe in the resurrected Jesus Christ. At times I refer to myself as Spiritual because Christians are some of the meanest and most judgmental people I have ever encountered. To me, many are no different than the Pharisee's and Sadducee's that nailed Jesus to the cross, with all their rules, control, manipulation and big business of religion. That is my experience and belief. But there are others who know there is more to the bible than condemnation for gay believers and they are more than willing to admit that. Tony Campolo's wife, Peggy spoke at a church I was attending and she said this, many people have asked me what if I got it wrong about gay believers going to heaven and I said to them "I will tell God that I am sorry that I took him serious when he said Whosoever shall come". The leaders that study Theology and seek collegiate education to learn and teach the truth, know better than to correct the clobber passages for the mere sake of splitting Christianity right down the middle. In a time where other religions are growing in numbers, scholars who know the truth refrain from commenting in fear of being the minority and ousted themselves.
My book is not published as of this date, but is currently at the press to be completed. I have decided to share with those of you, some of the writings that will be in the book. I want you to have access to it now because this may be the one opportunity I have to reach you and I do not want to miss it. The book format may not reach those across the globe, but social media can and I want you to have at your disposal, something that will give you hope that God does love you and desires a relationship. As a gay person with organized religion beating me over the head with their misinterpreted passages, I ran as far from God as one could. If God was going to create me this way then judge and punish me, then why would I waste time respecting and loving a God that had nothing nice to say about the way I was created. To me, that was a tyrant and a dictator deity (creator and supreme being) that should feel the shame I was experiencing. Little did I know, God experienced it right along side me and sent people to edify (enlighten, uplift) me. As the sheep that strayed from the flock, I heard God's voice call out to me. I heard the voice, I knew the voice and it was calling out my name. When we reconnected, I was thrown over the shoulders of my Lord and carried back to the flock under the Shepherds care. Are you ready to take that journey. Are you ready to rest in trust. Do you want to know your creator. It will change your life from the inside out, let us take the journey back home.
Take the time to read the tab My Book. I believe it provides a thought provoking fresh perspective on a stagnant and outdated belief.
The book will take you on a journey through my eyes, not justifying my choice to live life gay, but to walk you down a path so many have traveled before me and those who are traveling it now. The most important point of view I hope for one to comprehend is that God is for you and not against you. Blind faith based on someone's else's interpretation makes people ignorant to the truth. They justify pieces of scripture without considering the entire context. They stand on the platform of judgment proclaiming "I have the responsibility to tell you God is sending you to hell" and earnestly believe God will punish or hold them accountable for not attempting to help you understand their belief. I am not calling people ignorant, I love many of them, I use it in context as 'unlearned and scared to think otherwise'. They earnestly love you enough to not chance proclaiming their belief as truth. It is the one's who turn their back on you that I firmly and unapologetically call ignorant. As we continue the journey I tell you of how it all came to a boiling point and my Pentecostal, pew jumping, tongue speaking, bun wearing paternal grandmother and I had a conversation that changed my relationship with God. It wasn't that I felt her answer would be right as much as, I was confident that my prayer to know the answer would be led by the Holy Spirit through her. I ran out of her house clicking my heels and shouting joy to the heavens, I have never felt so liberated.
I want each of you to know that I am 100% confident that I am not misleading anyone when I say, a relationship is between you and God only. I know with certainty that God and I have a relationship and when I pass from this world, God and I will be reunited. My belief is Christianity and I believe in the resurrected Jesus Christ. At times I refer to myself as Spiritual because Christians are some of the meanest and most judgmental people I have ever encountered. To me, many are no different than the Pharisee's and Sadducee's that nailed Jesus to the cross, with all their rules, control, manipulation and big business of religion. That is my experience and belief. But there are others who know there is more to the bible than condemnation for gay believers and they are more than willing to admit that. Tony Campolo's wife, Peggy spoke at a church I was attending and she said this, many people have asked me what if I got it wrong about gay believers going to heaven and I said to them "I will tell God that I am sorry that I took him serious when he said Whosoever shall come". The leaders that study Theology and seek collegiate education to learn and teach the truth, know better than to correct the clobber passages for the mere sake of splitting Christianity right down the middle. In a time where other religions are growing in numbers, scholars who know the truth refrain from commenting in fear of being the minority and ousted themselves.
My book is not published as of this date, but is currently at the press to be completed. I have decided to share with those of you, some of the writings that will be in the book. I want you to have access to it now because this may be the one opportunity I have to reach you and I do not want to miss it. The book format may not reach those across the globe, but social media can and I want you to have at your disposal, something that will give you hope that God does love you and desires a relationship. As a gay person with organized religion beating me over the head with their misinterpreted passages, I ran as far from God as one could. If God was going to create me this way then judge and punish me, then why would I waste time respecting and loving a God that had nothing nice to say about the way I was created. To me, that was a tyrant and a dictator deity (creator and supreme being) that should feel the shame I was experiencing. Little did I know, God experienced it right along side me and sent people to edify (enlighten, uplift) me. As the sheep that strayed from the flock, I heard God's voice call out to me. I heard the voice, I knew the voice and it was calling out my name. When we reconnected, I was thrown over the shoulders of my Lord and carried back to the flock under the Shepherds care. Are you ready to take that journey. Are you ready to rest in trust. Do you want to know your creator. It will change your life from the inside out, let us take the journey back home.
Take the time to read the tab My Book. I believe it provides a thought provoking fresh perspective on a stagnant and outdated belief.