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Once I came of age, I read, it’s a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of God. But given the choice, King David chose God’s hands because he did not want the hands of man touching him. He knew eventually that God would extend mercy and man would not. I was thinking, it’s a […]

Don’t Forget. Let Go and Move On Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let the tears water the seeds of your future happinessSteve Maraboli  Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recoveryHarry Potter Movie Always forgive your enemies.  Nothing annoys them so muchOscar Wilde I think that if God

If you don’t sit down in that back seat while a parent is driving you may feel a hand across your lips…you got smacked dead in the mouth. You will not die or need counselling. In fact when you grow up, and recount the situation there will be no horror attached. And when I usually

We do not tell. For whatever reason, we just don’t. Whatever the abuse or socioeconomic status. You are a little kid and afforded every comfort in life and one of the things you love to do is spend time in the family’s massive garage admiring Bentleys, Astins, and even the Cooper. The (fe)male mechanic slowly

  Muhammad Ali! A great fighter with his FISTS. But those weren’t his only weapons. He also had a BIG MOUTH. He won most of his fights either at the signing of the fight, at the weigh-in, before hands were taped, or right before the first bell. When he finished with his victim, they were

A Portrait of Norma Then came summer vacation before Jr High Long days of summer to interact with friends And let’s not forget uncles, aunts and cousins Parks, barbqs, road trips, and just because with kin Sleepovers with girlfriends while imitating singing groups Applying make-up, and talking about boys About what we would do once

Most websites agree that all sexual abuse reports are under-enumerated mainly because they are under-reported. When I read statistics on the matter, I sometimes at least double many of the given projections. The World    I billion children across the world are exposed to violence in childhood each year. That’s over half of the world’s children

Sexual abuse is not necessarily about sex, although things of a sexual nature take place. It’s about power. It contains the jonesing, the addiction, the need for domination in taking something away from someone and watching the lack of ability of that person to reveal the theft. When someone is about to marry, they are

I Don’t know. Maybe it’s been 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, or 40 years since that intrusion of sexual abuse into your life. And somehow, say with a time warp, or a divine manipulation and interference with time, you can go there and whisper into the ear of that younger you. Someone you’d trust. What

For the most part abuse is deliberate. I can’t defend my actions. They too were deliberate. Still, I would like to think that I gave my children a lot of the things my mother gave me, as I remember them. Still I know my offerings were convoluted. For instance, as a child I was never