The matter of suffering and our desire to somehow avoid it in life has been very present lately as my awareness has been heightened by my own and others’ experiences….
I talked to someone who told me she’d had a dream in which her abuser, no longer in her life, had chased her. She ran in her dream, trying to hide, again and again. As he drew closer and closer, Jesus spoke to her and said, “Turn and face him.” She turned and her abuser stopped on his tracks and could come no further. She said to me, “The Lord told me to face all of this.”
I told her there was a time in your life your choices were limited by your young age, the way you were kept from school, church, work and other activities. But you are an adult now and you’ve drawn around yourself the full equipping of God’s armor, which we discussed. She smiled. She said, “It feels good to quit running and face the past.”
She was in trauma counseling and life recovery for six months…. what a miracle of God! She says this is the first year she has something to celebrate on her birthday…… (1/29/2022)