Thank you for being open to realizing that not all "lurkers" are here to attack or cause conflict.
I lurk here on a consistent basis. I must chew up the meat and spit out the bones, just like I have to with any information I take in on any given subject. Likewise, I realize that I alone am responsible for "working out my own salvation" so I don't let ridiculous banter trip me up, if I can help it. Again, I am human and I am WOMAN, enough said! lol
I can assure you of one thing, had I not come into the UPC in a military setting in Europe, but here in the states, given the examples I have seen stateside, I never could have justified aligning myself with the UPC movement. That is not a "dis" to all, but a statement of the overwhelming example I have observed over the years since 1991 when I first sat under an Exploring God's Word Bible Study.
Every time this stuff comes up with Bro. Huling I get another knot in my stomach, flashbacks of sorts. I was raised by alcoholics, married the HS sweetheart baptist preacher's son. . . .we became UPC first year married and he had ISSUES. . .let's just say I should have left the marriage a good decade before I did, I will spare you the details, but the brow beating and insecurity I had from sitting under UPC ministries that would have told me to "stick it out" and fear of possibly causing my lost family to never know the Lord kept me in a horrible situation. . . . I am glad to tell you I am free of all of that today. I am remarried to a wonderful Godly man and my life is full of peace and joy, even with 3 teenagers in a blended family, now THAT, my friend, is a miracle in it's own right! lol
I think of pastor Huling strutting across the stage, yelling, screaming, preaching, telling us how wicked we were, how sick and twisted the world was, speaking of illicit sexual things and "honkey tonks" and always tucked in, V shaped, still worked out to keep himself in good physical condition. . .all while this is what was happening!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHh It makes me sick to my stomach. I let my child play in the yard with him when I went to lunch at their home. . . .OH GOD, what if? what if? what if? I had him in my home, he married my sister and her first husband, you have no idea!
Gossip? Some would say gossip? You have no idea friends, NO IDEA, what happens inside of you when a person you esteemed at the level I esteemed this man FULLY ADMITS to doing such things. Go to
www.joplinglobe.com, read the disgusting details. The docket entry I posted is NOTHING compared to the details of what he did to this, now broken and violated little girl. I know the little girl, I do, I saw her in town recently, my heart sank. She's suffered tremendous physical ills due to the stress and tension. My own daughter is 12. . . .It sickens me. Then there's sister Huling, I love her. I cannot reach out to her, how can I help?
All of these thoughts go through your mind. I know, I know, this is not the place. If this is not the place, then where is the place? The same place I stayed trapped in in my marriage to my SUPER SPIRITUAL ex husband while he ran, spoke in tongues and brought home what it took to cause positive STD tests? That place, is that where I should go back to?
I have shared more than I ever intended and this is just the tip of the ice burg. I hope it paints a clearer picture for some folks rather than just people thinking this is some sort of "smear campaign".
Lisa
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