I would have been a good Catholic. I like order and requirements and formality. I need structure that is so often lacking in the modern Protestant tradition of America.
I am perhaps my own best critic, but it would be nice to be able to cleanse my inner being and share my own self-inflicted wounds to another human and receive absolution and needed penance. Our notion of personal confession often pushes sin deeper into the interior rather than catheterizing ones soul. I need a community of faith to hold me accountable and to help me recover from my tendency to beat myself up.
I need a confessor. Anybody up for the job?
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I'm always here, but I probably won't hold you accountable for much. If you need an ear, I have two of them. If you a bullwhip, I've just got a bunch of flowers.
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