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Dear Father Tryphon,
Thank you for your pastoral care. I am in a difficult place stemming from childhood abuse. The root of my present struggles comes from being repeatedly told by a parent that I have been damned by God. So, today I can try to tell myself with all of my intellect and cognition that God loves me, but at the core of my being I am poisoned with the lie. How do I excise this from my heart? Most every time that I attend church, which is for essentially every scheduled service for I am a chanter in our parish, I suffer great anxiety and physical visceral distress. I am concerned for my physical, mental, and brain health from this stress. Please add my name to your prayers.
As a child I was bullied by other children because they all thought I was stupid. I suffered from dyslexia at a time when it was an unknown learning disability. It was not until I was in graduate school that I found, after taking a class on learning disabilities, that I was dyslexic. But by then the damage to my self-esteem was already deeply embedded. I now see that the experience of being bullied by other children has given me a heart for those who are suffering. In the end, the Lord turned my pain into an ability to see, and minister to, those who are in pain. Glory to God for all things.
Well that was just what I needed at this moment…I had been praying today about this very issue as I have been worrying about way too many things recently and struggling with turning them over to God as I know I should. I felt like you were speaking directly to me. Thank you.
Dear Father Tryphon,
Thank you for your pastoral care. I am in a difficult place stemming from childhood abuse. The root of my present struggles comes from being repeatedly told by a parent that I have been damned by God. So, today I can try to tell myself with all of my intellect and cognition that God loves me, but at the core of my being I am poisoned with the lie. How do I excise this from my heart? Most every time that I attend church, which is for essentially every scheduled service for I am a chanter in our parish, I suffer great anxiety and physical visceral distress. I am concerned for my physical, mental, and brain health from this stress. Please add my name to your prayers.
As a child I was bullied by other children because they all thought I was stupid. I suffered from dyslexia at a time when it was an unknown learning disability. It was not until I was in graduate school that I found, after taking a class on learning disabilities, that I was dyslexic. But by then the damage to my self-esteem was already deeply embedded. I now see that the experience of being bullied by other children has given me a heart for those who are suffering. In the end, the Lord turned my pain into an ability to see, and minister to, those who are in pain. Glory to God for all things.
Well that was just what I needed at this moment…I had been praying today about this very issue as I have been worrying about way too many things recently and struggling with turning them over to God as I know I should. I felt like you were speaking directly to me. Thank you.
Thanks for praying, Susan! God heard you and blessed all of us!