| Message | Dear Bryce:
Like everyone else here, I hope you are ok. I hope they are not getting to you, although going to a conservative church almost every week since I can remember, I know how emotionally confusing and hurtful the things they say can be. I hope every day that your decision to go there in the first place was made with the intent to ignore everything they try to tell you, and that as soon as you know you can, you will walk out. Although I have never been in your situation, I know how difficult it can be to take a stand, especially against people who claim to know God and who take advantage of your deepest faith and turn it against you to make money (lots of money) and to achieve their own ends rather than taking your best interests to heart. Travis is keeping his promise to stay strong for you one million times over. Unfortunately, you have to stay strong too. We can do everything humanly possible out here to get you to the gate, but we can't make you walk through it and back into the real world. So, if you can read this, find that strength inside you, and walk yourself out of that prison. There is so much out here waiting for you, and you can have it without ridiculous, unconscionable, and impossible conditions. Most of all, remember that God loves you just the way you are, and that no man on this earth knows God any better than you. |