For faith leaders and other supporters of adult survivors of child sexual abuse
I can’t tell you how prayer works, but I know it makes a difference. And it’s a resource that’s available to everyone. But we don’t use prayer to make God see things our way; instead, we seek to see life God’s way: to see ourselves, situations, other people, our past, and our future more as…
For our final post in this series, let’s talk about patience with God. As supporters, there are many prayers that we’re waiting to have answered. Many changes that need to be made. And we often have a mental schedule for all that. We have expectations that God will work on our schedules. We make plans…
In other posts, we’ve mentioned the importance of being sincere and honest with survivors. With the matter of patience, you can’t “fake it till you make it.” If you’re pretending to be patient but are actually highly irritated and frustrated with a survivor, we will often pick up on your insincerity. It will be very…
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