Photo by Melanie Wasser on Unsplash To the abused: You know how they say it takes great strength to leave an abusive relationship? I think it takes great fear to stay in an abusive relationship. Fear is the currency abusers trade with, the misappropriation of the power they have in a relationship. Because at the end of the day, that is what abuse is. It is the misappropriation of power. For men who name themselves Christians and abuse the women in their lives, the power given to you is one that is meant to be gentled. True power is knowing that you have the ability to destroy everything but deciding to protect and grow the weak things around you. It is not identifying weaknesses and using that as a spear to thrust through the side of the woman you have already pummeled into a shadow of their former selves. It is not using the same mouth that is meant to produce God-life to speak death into the life of the woman with whom you are meant to reveal God. When you abuse you
Life through the eyes of a growing Christian choosing God's word over everything else.