By Sy Garte2023-05-12T13:17:00
Sy Garte’s experience of childhood bullying led to him becoming a bitter, angry man. When a miraculous encounter with God replaced those emotions with a supernatural joy, it started him on a journey towards faith in Jesus
Children tend to conform to the expectations of their environment. Sometimes this causes a dilemma, because they live in an environment where two different sets of (radically opposed) expectations exist.
I was raised in a family of communist atheists that went back three generations, but most of our neighbours - including the kids I hung out with every day - were Irish and Italian Catholics.
So I learned the skills of adaptation and survival, and was fairly successful at leading a double life - until I turned thirteen.
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