Kim,

What a sincere and touching post! However, I wish you didn't feel depressed or sorrowful because you have been exposed to ideas different from those you have known before. Accept them or reject them....but don't feel remorse...please...you are too good a person.

Probably the moment I was closest to my father was when I was in college. My father has been a practicing Catholic all his life. A woman I knew in college was to be married. Her parents, her brother, her whole family was boycotting the wedding because she and her fiance had made a very reasoned decision to be married in a different church. The dean of our college was to have walked her down the aisle and had died suddenly. It was very sad.

I asked my father what he would do. He replied...."what a strange thing to lose your child over! A wound like that will never heal. Who knows which concept of God is right? Maybe some tribe in darkest Africa has the right God. What matters is how you live your life."

And you, Kim, live a good life!