The first time I wrote on this topic, I had just finished typing it and was making some finishing touches when armed robbers stormed my office and made away with my laptop and other valuables. We however did not sustain any physical abuse! Of the trio of physical, Psychological and Sexual abuse I think the latter is more devastating. Sexual abuse is both physical and psychological.
“I was ravaged” were the words of a victim of sexual abuse. It really is a sore subject, one we often refuse to talk about. Our refusal however appear to be a product of our helplessness. A victim of sexual abuse would rather undergo the procedure again than talk about it.
She came to my office that day
She spoke in riddles,
The bottom line was that she was depressed
She asked for an anti depressant
She was fourteen
Her friend is undergoing an abusive scenario she said
I was surprised she knew the details so well
There wasn’t enough time
And I wanted to help
The story was ghoulish
I wouldn’t tell of it
The story of ravage
It is not just girl’s stories
I’ve heard the boy’s version
Told by men
Men with tears in their eyes
We read about it so often
And later try to forget
The victim wouldn’t
The victims couldn’t
The pain was real
Memories refuse to fade
Subconsciously we can hide it
Denial often is the escape
An escape with seeping side effects
HOW DO I OVERCOME ABUSE?
If this is your question, you are not alone and there is an answer. There is power for you to forgive and be forgiven, I didn’t say it is easy, you can’t muster the strength though but I know of One who can.
“To forgive is to let a prisoner free and to discover that the prisoner is you” , this is the “foolishness” of God; that in forgiving evil we find truth. Salvation is found only at the cross of forgiveness, the cross of Love.
The trip to that cross is the track on which an abused person experiences the saving redemptive grace of God’s power. It is a trip many have taken and found redemption, it isn’t an easy trip no doubt but a necessary one.
Accept the Love of Christ, He loves you enough to pay for humanity’s ill and all of lives burden are made light when we accept His love and dare to share it.
Leave the abusive scenario, flee it and run to shelter. Accept His Love and dare to give it.
“On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, "Anyone who is thirsty may come to Me! Anyone who believes in Me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, 'Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.” John 7:37
Anyone!
Okwonna Nelson
nnamdiokwonna@yahoo.com
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