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I wondered upon a little girl crying one day Her tears were like raindrops streaming down her face.
I wanted to say something to her. But the look on her face told me different.
It was more than just pain on her face...... there was hurt there too.
I wanted to put my arms around her and just hold her.
I wanted to take her pain and hurt into my own heart. For it hurt me so to see her crying like this. And I wondered...can I even begin to bare her pain?
Whatever was wrong I knew it was just too much for her to bare alone. But there she was.....alone and crying.
Finally I said something to her. But she never looked up. It was almost like she was afraid to look me in the eyes.
But then my eyes begin to see bruises and marks on this little girl. The vile taste in my throat sickened me as I saw dried blood on her dress.. To seek and destroy was my first instinct. To hold and to protect were of equal response.
My mind was a mass of confusion....What should I do?
So many thoughts about this little girl went racing through my mind. But what one thought would even begin to erase the hurt she was feeling now?
Could it be the thought that there is so much evil in the world. And that sometimes the innocent are caught up in it and whatever happened was not her fault.
My mind questions.....where were her Angels...... her protectors?
Then I got to thinking...well.....her Angels are there with her now to strengthen her. To see she gets through this better than before. Everything happens for a reason......and though at the time we may not understand the why of it. We do become stronger in different areas of our lives because of it. And that is why we have Angels. They give us the strength we need and see to it that our lives become better because of the pain we have to bear.......Alone.
Princeofdreams©

Physical abuse of a child is not something that "happens for a reason." I can't imagine anyone doing that to a child and there IS no reason to do it, ever. There is no "why" to understand and there should be none of it to "make us stronger" because of it.

God bless the little children and protect them from "monsters".....

Cali

Children don't own responsibility for any bad act visited upon them by an adult. All adults should be 'angels' to our children- for they are the ones who will care for us one day .

Sherri

I've posted this in a lot of my groups. And women would email me and tell me they were this little girl.
I felt so bad for them. They would tell me that what I wrote did help. And that's all I was trying to do.
Yes..this is only a write. But there are so many little girls like this one going though the same thing.
And yes some did blame themselves.

I'm filtering what Durl is saying through the book the "Shack" where a little girl is murdered by a psychopath and the father has to deal with it. I think that's how he intended it, as a way of attaining some peace from a dastardly act that has no reason, but with the grace of God and angels, (or for you agnostics, our imagination) we try to make sense of it, so we can go on. Such a sensitive topic. I know a woman and I'm sure there are more than one, who lived for almost forty years self-medicating, self-destructing, and I think child abuse was the root of it. There are so many consequences of that evil act that go on for years. We have places to put the perpetrators for years, too, until their wayward fruit shrivels and is impotent.

This little girl could well have been me 60 years ago. My father was an abuser and all of us children (9) in all suffered to some extent at his hand.