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[foreverHis]

Anyone who has suffered from abuse of any kind knows that years of joy, innocence and love are 'stolen' from them.

We hear the expression the "stolen generation" so often. For women, in particular, a childhood stolen through abuse causes pain
and "woundedness" that robs many of the fulfilment of being a woman.

So often a child or a woman is left to search the wrong places to fill that void, that need for a Daddy to love and trust the need for a safe relationship. It's an endless search for un-fulfilled love

.unhealed wounds (tender to the touch) can tearfully and painfully surface. The pain of sexual, physical and emotional abuse and violence can rob us of our life....but Jesus come to give us life.....a new beginning...

we sometimes feel that it is all our fault, which causes us to sink deeper into the lies that the father of lies feeds us with....

therefore never bring the truth to light..because of the shame...


we seek relationships to fill that void..but alas..often we go from the fry pan into the fire...and the cycle begins again..

we wonder..what is a good relationship??

I started to learn about the Heavenly Father and sense His healing touch. Old fears came rushing to the fore. Could I really trust this "Father God" as He was called? Would He really love me and not let me down?
I was afraid again and struggled mentally with the painful memories but little by little the healing came deep within as I read His Word, the Bible and as He spoke to my heart with gentle words.


"I have loved you with an everlasting love, you are mine, you are precious, the apple of my eye, I love you and I do not condemn you."

These soothing words came like gentle summer rain on my hurting and desperate heart, easing the pain. I started to respond back to my Heavenly Father, someone whom I could trust at last.
One day in prayer, as I closed my eyes I saw a picture of myself sitting on the Father's knee, looking into His Face, reaching to Him as He held me close. "Daddy", I whispered.
The words came from my lips and my heart. I knew at last the pain of the past years and lost childhood was over or mostly anyway. I sat enjoying this wonderful moment that I hoped would go on forever.

Was I really free from my past? In the years that have followed, there have been challenging moments as I allowed the Holy Spirit to open and to heal the last of those "doors" where I had locked the most painful of my memories. How wonderful and free I was! I wanted to shout from the mountains, "I'm free, I'm healed, I'm a woman and I'm glad!"

I could finally say "goodbye" to the shame and grief , the stolen years. As I have grown in my relationship with my Lord, I have learned that my dignity and worth, my security, come from the relationship that I have with my Heavenly Father. I am the person He created me to be.



I have also come to know the freedom of forgiving the ones who caused my pain. The truth is that it is Satan who comes to rob, steal and destroy. He uses people but he is the one who has set himself to try to destroy womanhood, to steal what God so marvelously created.

Our wonderful Heavenly Father paid the price through the death of His only Son Jesus not only to deliver us from the horror and results of abuse but also to fully restore our womanhood. Truly my God is my Abba Father, "Daddy God"! Because of my friendship, I am complete as a woman, wife, mother and "Nanny", just as He created me to be

. I live in victory over "something" that happened in my past. Do I remember? Yes! But without the pain because it's like looking on something that happened to someone else.

The future is His and mine together and I know that He will lead me through it with all the love of a Father's Heart. He has fully restored my "stolen years". Thank you my "Daddy God", I'm your little girl!


you have read this story and you want to know more about Jesus, then simply ask Him to come into your life, to heal you from the abuse you have suffered, and to restore your "stolen years".

He will heal you and walk you through the grief of your "stolen years". He will touch your woundedness and make you whole again. You will be free to be the person you were created to be.
Remember you were uniquely created and you are very special. Put your hand in His and He will lead you into the future.

"Long ago, the Lord said, I have loved YOU ... with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. I will rebuild you (remake you)" (Jeremiah 31:3,4).

"I will never fail you, I will never forsake you. That is why you may say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper so I will not be afraid of what mere mortals can do to me" (Hebrews 13:5b, 6).

May you feel God's healing touch,
Beryl

[Dora]

unhealed wounds (tender to the touch) can tearfully and painfully surface. The pain of sexual, physical and emotional abuse and violence can rob us of our life....but Jesus come to give us life.....a new beginning...

life MORE abundant.

Thank you for sharing sis. Read this a few times over.

[Tam]

Thanks for sharing this .
Love you sis