As young people, especially from dysfunctional families, it is common to feel like a victim in and of one's own household. However, it is rarely due to malice, but usually born of unresolved pain in the leaders of that home. For example, my beloved mother, who was a victim of child abuse. As a child, I noticed her mistreatment of herself, but around the time I began puberty, her disdain became aimed toward me. I hadn't seen anything though until I myself became a teen mom. Much later in life I would learn of my mother's family history, when she shared stories of her being a believer in Christ as a child and how the adults in her home made poor choices that led to the abuse of she and her siblings. In a state of PTSD from about age 13, before anyone knew what that was, and blaming God for what her earthly parents did and didn't do, she began living a life of rebellion. This is but a glimpse of how that looked amidst her children and grandchildren, before she ultimately became receptive to God's grace...again.
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