I really appreciate your input!

And that's exactly how I felt yesterday. First the therapist, who, I might add, has her own issues. And then our church thing which last night was only 3 people last night. But the other two women felt that I rushed right over a significant part of my childhood as if in attempt to downplay it/myself. I didn't feel like I was doing that. I just feel like it has no place in my life now, so leave the past in the past. It's so many years gone by now and I prayed to be relieved of anger and resentment (my step-father) and one day it was just gone. I even got to see him before he died and pray with him, so I feel like I was healed.

Anyway, the raining on the parade...! Exactly! People just can't believe that anyone can actually be happy. I figure, as a Christian, I really CAN just be happy and not need to know why. I can blindly accept some things. I can just accept, as a gift, (which I do) the wonderful outlook that God has given me.

Or - I suppose that I could pick it apart and hack away at it until it's pock marked and ruined.

Kate