[AreYouReady?]

The Hiding Place is a wonderful book. I marveled at what Corrie went through and was still able to forgive her abusers.

In the meantime, I will stay away from my abusers and try to pray for them. That is hard. So instead I will confess my inability to forgive and pray for God to help me to forgive them and for my healing. I will pray for a church system that actually has a five-fold ministry in use and feels that everybody in their system has some sort of ministry of their own to develop and be of use to the Lord.

I am prepared to love and respect others, to reconsider my thoughts and feelings, but I will not step foot into any church system where I am not treated with love and respect. That will scrape the scabs off that I want to heal.

Jesus said that his disciples are known by the love we have for one another and by our fruits. If it is not manifested in the church system, then what are we doing in a place where Jesus is not there?