acceptable or sinful?

I stumble upon a gay-friendly christian blog and the quote below really hits me hard.

"The emotional, relational aspects of same sex love that a homosexual desires is genuine and is not evil in itself. But the sexualization of that desire is a sin. In other words, a person who has same sex attractions needs the love of a brother or a father but because of his sinful nature, his state of fallenness in Adam, these genuine emotional and relational needs have become a cause for sexual arousal...

...All he knows is that he desires to be close with a man, to be intimate with someone of the same sex - to have a bonding that will heal a feeling of emptiness inside." (by Rik of Journal of a Battling Christian)

daydreaming (kind of)

"are you lonesome tonight..
do you miss me tonigh..
are you sorry distance set us apart..."(music fades off)

Those lyrics have ben ringing in my head in the past few days. I think tigger has been missing someone.

To start with, he missed late-night (on weeknights) chatting with a good mate who lives on the other side (literally) of the world. It is usually 11pm-ish when tigger finishes his dinner and this friend (let's call him Joe) will also have had his lunch finished too and back to work.

Tha chatting will usually last for an hour or two or even more depending on how chatty we are for any given night. 

There were a few awkward silence in the earlier days but it's been good now.

We learn more about each other from night to night (or day to day in his side). We do ask each other lots of 'random' questions - ranging from movies, political news to almost anything else that one could think of.

We find out that we are actually very much different in personality and preference. But thinking over a bit further, there are not few of similarities that we do share, namely, things about christianity, persistance about life and, ah, the good old issue of 'weaknesses' (some of them if i may add).

Now, Joe has been on long long holiday (yes, it has been started and won't be ended any sooner) and i think he has also found the love of his life (good on him). Things will never be the same again even though he will back to work in a month time or so.

But anyhow, i am thankful to God for all those lovely evenings we have shared. Tigger will continue treasure every moment of those days in a very special part of his heart.

ciao for now.

someone got excited tonite. gosh.

An Age Old Question..

Can one be a Christian and gay at any point of time?
A question to ponder upon at least for the rest of 2008

Prologue

New year.
New resolution.
It's time to blogging again.

But what shall I blog about?
After a lot of thinking in the past week, so... here it comes.

Being very much inspired by fellow Christian who struggles with his sexuality, this blog will be dedicated to the delicate issue of homesexuality that has been reshaping the understanding and tolerance in our society since the past decades or so. So the credit goes to a good mate at 'Stuck in the middle with God'.

To make things more interesting, I'll throw in Christian teachings that may not necessarily condone or suppress such condition (read: homosexuality) but uniquely attempt to evaluate this circumstance from different angle(s) while maintaining its biblical truth.

I will also pour out my struggles (many to write), events of imperfection leading to sinfulness that has and will happen in my life (hey, no one is perfect, right?), perhaps some rebukes and consolation from the word of God while we are still living in this world.