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Growing
up where abuse is rampant, many who were abused find holidays like Mother’s and
Father’s Day very hard. While families are getting together to celebrate and
honor their parents and grandparents on the day set aside to do this, those who
found themselves trapped in the cycle of abuse, debased by the escalating cycle
of negative words and behavior that robbed them of their sense of personal
worth, or the ability to change their situation, may struggle as they find
themselves caught between honoring the people who did this to them, or dealing
with their own condemnation if they don’t play the ‘pretend game’.
For
many abused ‘pretending’ was the way they survived. So assuming they can still
do this and survive, they return. Once in a while, they find the parent
contrite and wanting to make amends. More often than not they leave
feeling as if they are still trapped in the abuse for the ‘Committee in their Head’ has new
fodder to feed upon. This resurgence to the forefront of all they tried to distance themselves from or deny causes many to feel that a Lobotomy, which in
its heyday was often used to correct mental illness, is needed to restore a semblance of normalcy. Once more existing within a trapped mindset, the abused abuses themselves.
There
is a better way. A way to be a 'happy you' whether you go or not! A way to make
peace with your past and chose, I say “Chose” because it is through the act of choosing
that we define ourselves and become. Knowing this, God put Adam and Eve in the
garden. He put Adam in charge of everything, told him to eat all he saw, except…and
Adam chose. I say "Adam chose" because he was in charge. Adams choice resonates throughout
the generations. We live and die while dealing with the fallout of Adams choice
as did Eve. I say that about Eve because Adam ‘chose’ to eat the fruit from the "tree of good and evil" that she gave him. Adam chose and since he was in
charge, Scripture says that because Adam sinned…
Do
we sin when we don’t horror those who dishonored us may be the question you
like to ask. Rather than answering that question from my thinker, which doesn’t
know squat, let’s focus on the blessing God promised us in Deuteronomy 5:16 where we read, "Honor your father and mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live
long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving
you.” God gave me this verse while I was
trying to figure out what I would do or not do. While having my back adjusted,
God was adjusting my ‘tude’! That’s right! I needed an ‘attitude adjustment’,
for I had been acting as if I were the only one who’d ever…You can fill in this
blank with all the reasons why you won’t or don’t see the one who…
But God knew, and I’m
here to tell you what He taught me because if you don’t return and face the one who hurt you, a part of you,
perhaps the most important part of you, will always be trapped in that abuse. If,
however, you ‘chose’ to go, not out of obligation, or because it’s the ‘lesser
of two evils’ but to obtain the blessing that God promised you, which
says, “…so that you may live long and
that it may go well with you in the land the Lord God is giving you,” I know
He will protect you and show you what to do and say.
Choosing to return to
the pain is YOUR gain if Messiah is with you. I know. I did this. But before
God confronted and sent me back there, I’d had a life changing biblical intervention between God
and me. I did personal work in the Scripture, and prayed. While I was doing
this, and while I was working with my LAMB Ladies, I had no idea that God had
planned all along to tell me to return, but when He did, though fearful, knowing
that I now owned my unique personhood, I went. And it "was good". I know it "was good" because God had taught me how to define what "was good" for me. No longer would I let or allow anyone to define or tell me about what "was good" for me! Now owning myself and fully aware of all that means, I look back and realize it
was more than ‘good’ it was ‘liberating’! For God and His Word had set me free
to become the Real Me!
This can happen to you
to…take my hand and I’ll show you how.
If you'd like to begin your recovery as I did,
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