Book - Healing in the Hurting Places
Healing in the Hurting Places is a personal experience story and outreach for victims of childhood sexual abuse, and those who want to help them. It sensitively focuses on the healing journey—how to recognize symptoms of abuse and offer help.
Author: Karen F. Riley
Publisher: Destiny Image
ISBN: 9780768438888
Date: 2011
Excerpt:
This was due to several encounters in my youth with overzealous born-again Christians. [he most traumatic was a young Vacation Bible
School (VBS) teacher who locked each of us in a room and would not let us out until we accepted Jesus. While locked in, he told us how
we had to give up all of our false idols—-singers, Hollywood stars we liked, candy, sports, television, music, etc., or else we would go straight to hell.
It's hard for an 1I-year-old to hear that having a David Cassidy poster on her wall is going to condemn her to life in hell. I wasn’t worshiping him; I just thought he looked kind of cute and I enjoyed his songs.
