My Life's Friend & Companion - HAL

Our Life Together - Wil & Hal's Covenant Together....   Now I will say that I am also a man who enjoys the company of other men. Some might go as far as saying a "same-sex attraction" or homosexual person but I am NOT GAY but I am very happy. For me the whole "gay lifestyle" is simply way to queer (strange) for my comfort. But I am a very loving adult male and furry BEAR that is happy with myself and the way my life has turned out. I myself (WIL) am a masculine yet tender man who is a "bondservant" of The Lord's Holy Spirit which is why I originally pierced my ears (listen to the song and/or click here) myself using only a needle and apple back before body piercings became so trendy. I have also had a few other body part's pierced and each of those piercings also hold a deep spiritual symbolism. I also wear 5 tattoos which for the most part I designed expressing different times in my life spanning from my 21st birthday all the way up to my latest design done in 2010 telling a story about growing up, trials I have been through (and passed) and commitments I have made. I have lived with Hal who is my life companion and partner on this journey since 1993 and with whom I have known since I was 10 years old. We originally met because his younger sister use to be my baby-sitter and he would drive her out to watch me and my younger brothers. Hal is the older brother I never had in my life as much as he is my friend and companion who I care deeply for and honestly love more then any husband could love his wife, but a Brofriend. How many of you have a friendship that has lasted most of your life and just gets better and closer over the decades? I to this day also need a live-in care provider which Hal is and does to help me with some of my own needs due to my disability (narcoleptic with serious nerve damage in my lower back) for which I have already had 8 surgeries, 5 epidurals and various radio frequency oblation treatments to try to help correct the damage, but in the long run only made matters worse.   HAL (2011) In 1975, the Vatican published a Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics. One of those questions was homosexuality. A principal author of that document was Fr. Jan Visser, C.SS.R. In an interview in L’Europa, January 30, 1976, he said, “When one is dealing with people who are so deeply homosexual that they will be in serious personal and perhaps social trouble unless they attain a steady partnership within their homosexual lives, one can recommend them to seek such a partnership, and one accepts this relationship as the best they can do in their present situation.” One of the very men who formulated the Vatican teaching that homogenital acts are wrong allows that in certain cases one may not only permit but even recommend a homosexual relationship. Jonathan & David from the Bible   In 1994 from the advice we received from our Roman Catholic priest & counselor we made a monogamous commitment to each other before him and in 1996 our priest said a special prayer over our life-long covenant to each other using the words David & Jonathan  made to each other thousands of years ago (1 Samuel 18:1-4**). David & Jonathan's true commitment to one another as being "more" then just close friends but a true knitted relationship to each other for each other that would not be broken until Johathan's death. I and Hal are thus "knit" together like how a garment of clothing is knit together with two different yarns or a blending put together to make one item as a life-long companionship each with our own goals, beliefs, separate bank accounts, etc. We are NOT married nor do we wish to be married as heterosexual couples where the two become one and share a common religion, a common family, a common political outlook, shared bank accounts, etc. An interesting observation many might not know is that I and Hal are with each other almost every minute of every day since 1996. Hal does go to town every few days but is never away from me for longer then 6 hours a day.  Out of all my friends only Hal has stood by my side and cared for me in such a loving and tender way even when I was truly mean and spiteful due to the pain and the depression this condition brings on periodically. He has been there to always lift me up (mentally and physically), cared for me and sometimes just held me when I cried in the disappear of physical and emotional pain. Hal has does all this and more faithfully out of the large loving heart that beats in his chest and soul. I trust Hal with my very life and the laws need to see that and apply to us- and they do through living wills, trusts, contracts, joint ownership of important properties, etc. Many of which is more binding then a marriage could imagine to be. The Bottom Line I must surrender and be very thankful to my Lord and God for bringing Hal into my life. I thank the Lord each and everyday for bringing this guy into my life both as a child and as an adult. Hal has cared so much for me over the years and never wanting much anything in return other then the mutual respect and love he well deserves. I sometimes wonder if he might be an angel sent down from heaven to care and love me as much as Hal does. If you have any questions then by all means please ask them - there is no guarantees I'll answer them, but you can ask via the various methods I have listed on my "Contact" page. Read more about Homosexuality, Catholicism and the Bible on the NEXT PAGE

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**When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his girdle.