"Survivors are not used to thinking about what they prefer, or what is comfortable for them...they simply want to know the answer."
"Abuse shuts you up. God gave you a voice"
"The struggle to find words is often slow and terrifying."
"To fail to speak is awful. To speak is equally awful because the telling makes the story real."
"To speak is to tell the truth."
"You were not created by God to live in silence. We know from the existence of God's word--both written and living-- that it is in his nature to speak. You and I are created in the image of a God who speaks. To be made in the image of God is to have a voice and to express ourselves through that voice."
"Sexual abuse: You have been shut up. Your voice has been crushed. Fear has made you inarticulate. Denial of other silenced you. Threat of rejection silenced you."
"In an attempt to survive, you, too have learned to lie, distory, and deceive. You pretend you are all right when you are dying inside. You say it was no bid deal when your insides were ripped apart. You distort the facts to make it seem not so bad. You say. 'At least I wasn't killed.' When in fact you feel dead."
"Bluntly put, the evil of sexual abuse is hell brought up to the earth's surface. To fight against the ravages of sexual abuse is to face the out workings of hell itself."
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