And finally! Finally! This weekend I heard the words I've been longing to hear all my life from a worldwide ecclesiastical leader. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Patrick Kearon! (Have a tissue ready! I sobbed throughout most of this!)
“YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE. YOU ARE NOT LESS WORTHY OR LESS VALUABLE OR LESS LOVED AS A HUMAN BEING OR AS A SON OR DAUGHTER OF GOD because of what someone else has done to you.”
“YOU ARE A SURVIVOR. You can heal and you can trust that WITH THE POWER AND GRACE OF JESUS CHRIST, YOU WILL OVERCOME AND CONQUER.”
“Jesus specializes in the seemingly impossible. He came here to make the impossible possible, the irredeemable redeemable, to heal the unhealable, to right the unwritable, and to promise the unpromisable. And he’s really good at it. In fact, He’s perfect at it.”
“The abuse was not, is not, and never will be your fault no matter what the abuser or anyone else may have said to the contrary.”
“God does not now nor has he ever seen you as someone to be despised. Whatever has happened to you, he is not ashamed of you or disappointed in you. HE LOVES YOU IN A WAY YOU HAVE YET TO DISCOVER.”
“You are precious in His sight. You are NOT DEFINED BY THESE TERRIBLE THINGS that have been done to you.”
“Though it may seem impossible, feel impossible, HEALING CAN COME through the redemptive might of the atonement of Jesus Christ who is risen with healing in His wings.”
“Please know that the Savior has descended below all things even what has happened to you. Because of that, He knows EXACTLY what real terror and shame feel like and how it feels to be abandoned and broken.”
“YOU ARE A SURVIVOR. You can heal and you can trust that WITH THE POWER AND GRACE OF JESUS CHRIST, YOU WILL OVERCOME AND CONQUER.”
“Jesus specializes in the seemingly impossible. He came here to make the impossible possible, the irredeemable redeemable, to heal the unhealable, to right the unwritable, and to promise the unpromisable. And he’s really good at it. In fact, He’s perfect at it.”