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A Woman I Once knew

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She was 7, maybe 8 when her brother started touching her inappropriately.

There was a TV room upstairs in the attic that her father had built mainly for her older brothers to use. It was fun and different up there. She could see out the second-story window into the backyard and watch the birds land in the cherry tree. It was carpeted and warm with cartoons playing non-stop. He was always up there too, her older brother that she looked up to and her parents adored.

She learned quickly that there was a price to pay if she wanted to spend time with him and so many that would come after him. This hard-learned lesson stayed with her until her death at age 33.

Everyone she met in her life seemed to extract another piece of her. It was the price she paid, to feel wanted, important, or pretty.

No relationship seemed to come without a price tag. Even though the cost seemed of less and less value to her it was so much greater than she knew.

When she started drinking at age 13 it numbed some of the pain but never for long enough. The drugs she started taking at age 14 seemed to be the answer, at least for awhile.

Yet years later no drug had ever wiped the immense regret of her two abortions out of her mind.

What confused her the most through all of this was that no one, no matter how close they were to her, seemed to notice the pain she was in. Her family saw a quiet, good student. Her  friends saw a loud-mouthed party girl. Guys just saw an object to use. No one ever saw her deep, immeasurable pain. No one ever looked at her long enough to notice it.

That woman died 16 years ago.

She was crucified on the cross with Jesus. She no longer lives but Christ lives in her. The life she lives in this body she now lives by faith in the Son of God who loved us and gave himself for us. (Galatians 2:20).

I am a new creation in Christ, the old is gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Have you met my Jesus? He can make you new too!

 


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