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\"\"<\/a>Today I received an email from the man who wrote the letter featured in yesterday\u2019s \u201cLetter From a Married Christian Man Privately Struggling with Homosexual\u00a0Desires<\/a>.\u201d He asked if I would share it, and of course I agreed to. Here it is:<\/p>\n

Hi John,<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t thank you enough for posting my letter, and for your faithful readers.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t feel alone any longer!<\/p>\n

I feel I can take away something from every comment, and put it to thought and see how it applies.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe there are that many people who commented, who offered me so much hope, love, and spiritual wisdom. I was able to grab a nugget from each one of the responses, regardless of where they weighed in.<\/p>\n

I have contacted a Christian counselor and I\u2019m seeing him today. I\u2019m still on the fence about telling my wife, although I want you and your readers to know that I\u2019m considering it. I feel I can\u2019t make that decision until I move past this first issue of figuring out or confirming who I am after all of this soul-searching.<\/p>\n

Thanks John and commenters! Thanks for allowing God to use you. I have found a new sense of strength and outlook. I feel like I can begin to breathe. I cannot tell you what it feels like to breathe for the first time because I was able to get out what I\u2019ve been experiencing and feeling, and to feel such warmth and compassion from individuals that I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

Thank you and all your readers as I continue this journey and find out what it means for me, and how God loves me and created me to be used by him with all of who I was before I met him, and with all of who I am, and am becoming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whoa. That is some crazily elegant final line. Awesome.<\/p>\n

As many of you know all too well, blogging is a weird gig; it\u2019s such a strange combination of vacuum and circus. I\u2019ve almost given it up a million times. But it\u2019s the sort of answers people sent in to this guy\u2014thoughtful, spontaneous, deeply compassionate, sharing, refreshingly and even inspiringly intelligent\u2014that make me glad I didn\u2019t give it up. You guys really helped this man. On behalf of him, and everyone who read the fine care you showed him, I want to thank you.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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