Some of us are out, some of us
aren't, some of us still have one foot still in the broom closet. We all have several
coming out stories to various friends, family, and known associates. I'm pretty
out though I have some boundaries--I'm still in the closet at work. Basically, religion
doesn't belong there. Seriously, I don't want to hear all about my co-worker
teaching at bible school at her church either.
I'm out to most of my family, but
honestly half of them don't get it. Like my parents. I've told them a few times, and I got
nothing. So I've tried through the years to bring it up, to no avail. For
example, if I set in my mind I'm going to tell them at dinner tonight, they start the dinner conversation with something like this. "So, I decided to drop by bible study this
week and they were talking witches and how they poison people."
Seriously...
My favorite is when they tell me
that you can't trust messages through mediums because it could be the
devil trying to trick you, and then they ask for a tarot reading. Okay...
My parents do know I don't believe in
their version of Christianity even if I say that Jesus' teachings were wonderful
and it's a shame most Christians don't follow them. They express how they wish
I could be more spiritual. Bwa ha ha, if they only knew, if only they would listen!
Not being out to my parents is actually
more amusing than anything. At this point, I don't get the feeling they're
supposed to know. I have suspicious of why that is. All my grandparents were
spiritually gifted, therefore so are my parents. My dad has the hookup with the
nature and animal spirits, but he's not ready to deal--at least not in this
lifetime. My birth mother was VERY Christian, but her and her sisters played
with faeries as children and when I was little we talked to the flowers and
plants in the garden and the trees and the birds and they squirrels... and they
talked back. My poor step-mother has to deal with the crazy energy all around her--me, my
dad, and my brother (who’s more hooked up than I, though he won't accept it).
Poor woman can't make any sense of any of this crazy side of the family, but
she really does try.
So I will keep trying as hard as I
can to get out to the parents. This year, in honor of IPCOD, I’ve decided to
come out to the rest of my college friends.
What’s one of your coming out
stories?
To learn more about IPCOD, go to
www.pagancomingoutday.org!
