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Releasing Shame on this Last Sunday in Advent
Why healing starts by recognizing their crimes were not my fault.
“If you alter your behaviour because you are frightened of how your partner will react, you are being abused.”
― Sandra Horley
I read a Facebook post about domestic violence. A post about the silence and shame it hides behind. It was a post affirming victim’s rights to leave, their/our right to live.
“If you have ever cried yourself to sleep. If you’ve ever prayed for God to change his heart. If you’ve ever prayed for strength to leave.
Leave.
Reading the above quote make me choke on the words as memories came flooding back to me. Memories of the hours and hours I spent praying for help, for change, for love and safety.
There were so many stabs of shame embedded in those memories. Painful, toxic shame bubbled up over things done to me.
Today I choose to release those shames that were never my burdens to carry.
If you are carrying shame(s) someone else has the burden to carry, I invite you to release your shame(s) too.
