An open letter to my biological parents
Hi Mom & Dad (Rhona and Gordon Reynen),
As you know I have walked away from the entire extended family per Luke 18:29-30.
I just want to let you know again I still love you despite the betrayal, I just love Jesus more.
Thank you for beginning to respect my boundaries and not sending me any explicit communication nor coming to Schizophrenia North @ The Royal in person again.
In the upcoming legal proceedings I intend to make it entirely about my religious freedoms, guaranteed by the Charter being violated, and nothing to do with either of you, or my diagnosis, or any other matter (including people who have harmed me from my past).
This is about peacemaking.
This is about God now, and my eternal family (my brothers and sisters in Christ). And over my dead body I will allow one of my family to end up in a place like this in Canada being treated the way I have. Psychotropics (pharmakeia) are sin, and this is a disgrace.
I'll never stop loving both of you and praying for you.
Thank you for the care packages you sent, without any form of explicit communication (including any written note or even a card)
I really liked the The Official MTO Truck Handbook and the nice modest clothing in particular. (I often say, "if my enemies left me alone I would be driving a garbage truck and singing hymns right now", and I remember dad (not my Abba) often saying to me, "Son, when you're in a hole, sometimes it is best to stop digging".
Mom, if God forbid you end up in a psychiatric unit I hope David or Andrew would find a way to let me know so I could send you care packages, too! (with no letters).
I hope I see you in the new heavens and new earth, the rest of our extended family, too!
But, each person has their own free will decision to make, which will not be forced upon them.
That's how much God values free will.
If you wanted to get me something for my birthday (and don't feel compelled or impelled to do so), please check out this post. All my socks are either lost or stolen too at this point, as well as the wooden cross you mailed me, that I had secured in my cubby. I have size 14 triple wide feet, as you well know.
I emailed something to David, and I asked him to pass it on to you since I don't want to communicate with you directly or vice versa (I will not make a habit of this). It has to do with Carleton in the fall, and wanting Andrew's number so I can call him once a year on his birthday, should he be open to that. I still love him dearly.
I hope you are enjoying the new dog, and Dad isn't picking up too much of her poop.
