When a child is silenced by threats of harm to his/her loved ones by an abuser or a parent chooses to believe and stay with an abuser because of her co-dependent needs instead of her responsibility to her child’s protection or even accuses her child of seducing the abuser, the child’s soul is damaged and that torment of unworthiness and inability to protect others and betrayal is felt deeply. Healing can be brought through listening and providing the balm that love and acceptance in Christ brings…… in allowing the pain to be expressed, the grieving to be done, the anger and resentment to be emptied, and the new perspective from God’s view provided. It may be beyond justice in this life, but one can know that justice will ultimately have been served.
