Personal Stories & Testimonies
by Christian Naturists
The BACN Forum part of this site was so successful, that some became like family to us! And now they want to tell their story here. This story is by "Bearone" (names protected by request) who has been a long time contributor and reader of the BACN Forum.
by "Bearone"
In my earliest memories we had two homes, one in a major northern city where my father worked and the other in an adjoining state where we had a farm.I was three years old at the time and remember well going to the YMCA in the city, to the pool, where I learned to swim. As most know all swimming in the "Y" pool was nude. I never wondered why and still don't know, it was just the way they did it and it seemed OK to me.
When I would be at the farm I would swim in our pond nude also because that was the "way you swim". Our neighbors down the road had a daughter my age and we would play together frequently and would go swimming on warm summer days at our pond. It was the way I swam and was only natural and convenient that she did also. Soon we found that playing nude was as normal as swimming nude. There never was a hint of anything evil in what we did. We chased, climbed trees, swam and had great fun just being kids. I don't think, looking back, that anyone ever knew that we played nude, we never thought to tell them.
When I was ten we sold everything and moved to Florida. The land we bought was very large, and it was never hard to find a place to be nude, but there was never a friend to share that with and I eventually grew out of it.
Years later, after I was married and was living in Miami, I saw an ad for a movie about nudist, playing at an "Art Theater", and was literally drawn to it. My wife agreed it seemed like fun and we were thrilled to find a nudist camp in Homestead. It was like going back in time for me.
While there we met the Hadley family who move to Kissimmee a few years later and started Cypress Cove. A year later we move to the Tampa area and found our friends in Kissimmee. A humble beginning has turned into a beautiful place.
This is where my life took a turn! At age thirty, never having known anything about God, my life was suddenly and dramatically changed. Never having had any experience with God it was easy to believe that since most people did not walk around nude in a public place it wasn't the thing a christian should do. Along with a host of other things, nudism got the toss!
After several years I had noticed that the things that God had taken out of my life where not missed and in fact had made me very happy......except nudism.
Because the change in my life had also placed me into a position of public ministry, bible study was a regular place to turn for "God why?". After more than twenty years of study I could find no good or valid reason to believe that God had a problem with nudity. He made me nude ! And I was back at the cove.
Along comes the computer age which I have found more difficult than one may believe, and my research there was confirming what I had discovered for myself, it's not what you wear that concerns God but rather who you are. Who you REALLY are. That research also is where I first found an intelligent young man whom I consider to be a friend. Take a bow Boyd!
--Bearone
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