[wbarmy]

She told me that she was 75 years old, that she had been married to a woman for 50 years, and that she and her partner had children and grandchildren.

Even people who have left the lifestyle still have a problem identifying between love and lust. She claims she "loved" her life before, but that does not square with recognizing the need for a savior. Just as she listened to this older woman, but did not see that "they" did not have children and grandchildren. They might have adopted and think in their mind that these are "our" children, but that is not the fact, and I am sure the children know it deep in their hearts.

And the author still wants to hide that nugget of "loving" the old life while claiming the new. I hate what I was before and recognize there was no true happiness or love in my heart. It was all to fulfill my "lusts".

[fwdude]

I think the statement after that from the 75 year old "married" woman is a little more revealing:
“I have heard the gospel, and I understand that I may lose everything. Why didn’t anyone tell me this before? Why did people I love not tell me that I would one day have to choose like this?”

First, it's hard to believe that in 50 years, which extends well into a period much less accommodating to these perverted lifestyles, no one "told" her that there were consequences to her behavior. Maybe not verbally, but she had ample ability to know the stance of virtually ALL of Christianity 50 years ago. I just suspect that she stopped her ears, not wanting to hear it. In other words, she's shifting blame, as is typical.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s all a development process at best. The old won’t be completely killed until arrival at the pearly gates, though it will be pushed back more and more successfully and the life ultimately lived will be one solely of true love leaned on the Lord

Confessing, like Paul, that she loved sin is being honest. She’s also confessed that it is sin. This is where the targeted mercy of the Lord is so paramount.

The “nugget” should be taken to Jesus to dissolve, untwist, and cleanse until the elements whose purpose was perverted to form it are set free to do what Jesus wants — we die, but then we are raised back to life and we don’t see that latter happening, what we have entered into is NOT salvation. It should not be taken to human critics who will lash it with their prides and can do no more.

[HiTech RedNeck]

... and IF we do not see the latter happening ...