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I'm a big fan of zombie movies. I will watch any kind of zombie film, old movies from the 50s to the modern ones. It is definitely gratuitous violence, but in a funny sort of gory way.
When we think of zombies, arms down, walking stiffly (they are dead, you know) and green faces, often with large, gaping wounds, we feel safe in the knowledge that they are not real.
There are those among us however, that are sort of real-life zombies. I call them the walking wounded. Those of us who look normal for the most part, but inside there is a large hole where our heart should be.
My abuse started when I was very young, my stepfather would sexually abuse me in front of my mother. She would often laugh or joke about the abuse. With no one to be my protector, the world as I knew it seemed normal. After all, if my parents would do such a thing, it must be all right. It wasn't until a woman from our church rescued me that I was shown how bad my situation was.
I am now a woman in my 40s, and I still carry the hurt from that abuse. Sometimes, when I least expect it, a memory will come up, or I will see someone who resembles my stepfather and I feel my heart drop. I think about how different my life would have been if I had parents who cherished and loved me. What if they had told me how smart I was, instead of how stupid I was? What if they had honored my body instead of violating it? Sometimes, it's not the abuse itself that is so bad, but the loss of any regard of worth that damages us the most.
If we let Him, Jesus can fill this void. He says that we are valued. That we are made just a little lower than the angels. He is our father in every real sense of what that title implies. Read 1 John 3:1. He is our protector. You have pain that you can't talk about to anyone? Talk to Jesus. He knows about it already. Tell Him how you hurt. Not ready to trust Him? Tell Him that, too. He already knows. Admitting that you don't trust Him is the first step in beginning a relationship that will never fail you. Jeremiah 31:3 says that He loves us with an everlasting love. I have never been that loved, have you? I invite you to have a conversation with God and tell him everything. Oh, there will be tears and there will be pain, but the promise in Isaiah 42:7 is that He will ".....free captives from prison and release those who sit in darkness." If you are in that dark spot now, I urge you to find the Light and begin to heal.
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I have not ecperienced such a thing, but when stresses crowd my mind, and believe me, they are real, I simply state this;
Be still and know I am God.Strangely enough, this phrase lifts me out of my worries.
I would love to wish you, Sue, a very happy new year to you and yours.
Love
Veronica