{"id":135,"date":"2009-01-16T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salvagedfaith.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/16\/ff-take-me-baby-or-leave-me"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:25:00","slug":"ff-take-me-baby-or-leave-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvagedfaith.com\/2009\/01\/16\/ff-take-me-baby-or-leave-me\/","title":{"rendered":"FF: Take Me, Baby, or Leave Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Although written by a young man, this song from &#8220;Rent&#8221; became an anthem for women of a certain age ready to be taken on their own terms. Maureen and Joanne love each other, but they are *very* different.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1140\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJUNfTKWimk?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s new friends or new loves or new employers, what are five things people should know about you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This Friday Five is really challenging for me, because I realize how many people I&#8217;m not completely honest with about. I don&#8217;t have enough confidence in myself, enough trust in other people to believe that they really will take me for what I am and still accept me.<\/p>\n<p>So, what would I want to say to all of those people, family, friends, church members, who only see the &#8220;neutral&#8221; me?<\/p>\n<p>1) My husband isn&#8217;t a Christian, and for the most part, I&#8217;m really okay with that.<\/p>\n<p>2) I consider myself a liberal. In all facets of my life. Politically, economically, socially, theologically. This has been the hardest one b\/c my family is pretty conservative, and so is the majority of my church. What I need to find the balance of is how to be me without imposing my views.<\/p>\n<p>3) I am a huge procrastinator.<\/p>\n<p>4) I like for things to be clean and organized, but I don&#8217;t always put things away&#8230; not until I need to work on something and then I get the urge to clean. or when I&#8217;m stressed. I clean then too.<\/p>\n<p>5) I take things personally. I try not to, but when you comment about something around me or something that I am a part of, or something that is in my sphere of influence, I take it personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although written by a young man, this song from &#8220;Rent&#8221; became an anthem for women of a certain age ready to be taken on their own terms. Maureen and Joanne love each other, but they are *very* different. 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