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    Feeling Hopeless From Being Sexually Abused? Healing is Possible

    If Goldilocks had ever come to my childhood home, she'd have found three bears alright - alcoholism, violence, and incest. For such is the history of my heart. What is the history of your heart, my friend? Were you sexually abused too? If so, keep reading, for there's hope ahead.

    In-sid-i-ous - proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.

    The insidious nature of childhood sexual abuse is like an autoimmune disease, twisting, tangling, taunting, and tormenting the soul - ultimately turning you against yourself. The injury to your soul, mind, and body and the resulting numbing of your soul, mind, and body are so severe you can't even imagine the possibility of healing.

    But...

    When it's dark enough you can see the stars." Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Will I Always Feel Hopeless?

    Now, I don't know where you are in the healing process. Maybe you're experiencing the emergence of suppressed memories. Memories buried since childhood but now their seeping out? Or, as I experienced, flooding out like someone cracked open a fire hydrant.

    Maybe you're trapped in unbelief - mentally and emotionally unable to accept something so dark, and evil happened to you? Acceptance was a massive challenge for me too.

    Perhaps you're the only one who knows. Aside from the predator who abused you, no one else knows your story. And the isolation and loneliness have grown claustrophobic.

    When sexually abused as a child, there are about a gazillion ways to become silenced, paralyzed, overwhelmed, confused. Hopeless.

    Healing is Possible

    But there is hope. You, my friend, are not hope-less. What you have experienced, what you have endured is grave indeed. Evil personified.

    But God has given us hope - as an anchor for your soul, firm and secure.

    So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls." Hebrews 6:19
    Even when their paths wind through the dark valley of tears, they dig deep to find a pleasant pool where others find only pain. He gives to them a brook of blessing filled from the rain of an outpouring." Psalm 84:6
    When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. Isaiah 43:2
    They have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me. Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked." Psalm 129:2-4

    Post Traumatic Hope

    My friend, even the darkness of being sexually abused as a child, is no match against God's grace, love, and power. Healing is possible.

    I absolutely used to believe things were hopeless. I thought I was hopeless. But God took me by the hand and guided me step by step. God provided for me moment to moment. He kept me and sustained me. He untangled my tormented soul. And slowly but surely, he's releasing me from all the ways I learned to numb my soul, mind, and body.

    Healing is possible for you too. In fact, I believe your healing journey has already begun - it's how you found your way to these words. Beloved, God loves you. God is for you, never against you. And what the enemy intended for your destruction, God will turn for good.

    For in him (Christ) all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." Colossians 1:16-17

    You are near and dear to my heart too, Beloved. Here's a song I've been praying over you. Crying tears of belief as I pray the lyrics over your life. Give it a listen and be deeply encouraged, The Blessing by Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, and Elevation Worship.​

    May His presence go before you
    And behind you, and beside you
    All around you, and within you
    He is with you, He is with youIn the morning, in the evening
    In your coming, and your going
    In your weeping, and rejoicing
    He is for you, He is for you"

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    Thanks for stopping by. Trusting in Jesus, you have more treasure than pockets. From my heart to yours...

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