5 November 2023
WHY DOESN’T SHE LEAVE?
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? (Psalm 139:7, Recommend reading full text, Psalm 139) I feel suffocated and condemned, I feel rejected, I feel unloved. My heart bleeds as I ask why my body is subjected to so much pain. “Where can I go from your Spirit, O Lord? Where can I flee from your presence?” I feel used, as I have been raised to believe that “my body is meant to please man”- when I am sexually and physically abused and run away from him, my elders tell me to go back and submit. “You must have wronged him; it is how you talk back to him! Look at your dress! So why should you blame him when you are dressed like a “harlot”? I ask myself – is being a harlot
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sundays with cwm 2023