Fear Unfounded Revisited
The blog I posted the day before regarding the young woman who “rejected” my helping her with her work called me today. I mustered the courage to copy the link and sent the blog which you read and almost immediately her voice broke and with tears shared her feelings. I was touched.
I was touched for several reasons listening to her. I was touched for her courage to contact me and allow me to know words written can still have an effect if we are brave enough to write them. I was touched because she inevitably did face her own fear and shared with me her intent on overcoming those issues which prompted our meeting in the first place. There is no such thing as coincidences with God. I was touched, myself, because I was used and instead of resorting to anger and responding in an unproductive manner, I allowed my hurt feelings to be funneled into something constructive. This is what “hope and encouragement”, the purpose of this site was intended.
Those of you who suffer inwardly, you are not alone but will be so if you do not reach out to others and share with them your pain. No one will look at you strangely because we are all there and it helps to have a strong shoulder, a listening ear. It helps to know and to feel the humanity of others and better still to feel the grace of God shown in others.
My message to you, face your fear for this is the only way it can be put behind you. If there is something to be done, do it. If there is something to be said, say it; but, do not let it control your life and cause you to miss the blessings and opportunities which await you simply because you failed to try.
“Thank you, LT, for sharing with me. This is what makes this work a blessing and worthwhile.”
Be Blessed. …Brother Roy
Tags: Addiction, Child Pornography, Recovery, registered sexual offender
