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Grace Does Not Silence the Truth
One of the most important and difficult spiritual issue for children of abuse: forgiveness for the abuser. If God condemns the evil but has mercy on the perpetrators, can we do less? We have seen that children (and the families of children) who are being sexually manipulated find every reason to excuse the behavior of…
YOU HEARD ME THE FIRST TIME
The women at church said I was strong. I let them. It saved us all a conversation. I had learned to speak of suffering once I could put an ending on it. God was faithful. Something good came of it… We could move onto coffee. But there were things I still could not say in…
He Didn’t Take Everything…Out of silence. Into my own voice.
Here, in the cold light, I am flesh and bone, bruised from the inside out, but still standing. I find myself tracing back, not the soft lullabies or the steady hands of protection, but the roughness of touch that was never meant to be mine. They told me to keep quiet, that I should pretend…
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