for and about today’s youth
from Timothy Ministries-The True Son & accompanying blog, The Maiden’s Portion
Cut to the Quick
In the spring of 2012, where we were
ministering at an emerging skate church,
my husband would walk the perimeter of
the grounds praying for the youth. In the
group of teens that came daily after school
to skate, there were quite a few that needed
to hear that Jesus loved them. For the time
we were there, we labored in a field of
white, ready to harvest.
There was also a home school program
run in the morning hours fours days
a week by the pastor's mother. One
particular mother in the program had two teenage daughters, a preteen daughter, and a six year old son. It was plain that something
was not quite right about the family, and soon enough we saw what
it was.
One morning, when the oldest daughter was taking too long to solve
a math problem, the mother let loose a tirade of insults, so loud that
everyone could hear her. Some of us went into a room close by and
prayed for this woman while another interrupted the math lesson
and talked privately with her.
On many occasions, when my husband would walk the property any
pray, he would find wads of paper towels~lots of them~with brown
stains. We reported our findings to the leadership, but all were
puzzled as to what it could be. It wasn't until one day, soon after the
math incident, that my husband was walking and praying that he
found 'fresh' paper towels and realized the brown stains had been
dried blood.
When the ugly truth came out, both of the older girls were being
physically and verbally abused by their mother. At that point, social
workers came into the picture, and we lost contact with the family,
but it was obvious that the cutting was an attempt to deal with the
pain inflicted by the mother.
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