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TITLE: The Most Lonely | Previous Challenge Entry
By Dawn Winston
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I have a friend, no really, who has four sisters. Her mother loved her sisters, not her. Her father loved her, not her sisters. Her sisters and mother tortured her verbally and emotionally for it. She sliced her arms up regularly to get love from the only place she had found it besides the twisted love of her father, the ER nurses. She spent years in and out of psych wards. This is a portrait of being the black sheep of the family.
Joseph in Genesis was loved most by his father, thereby hated and left for dead by his jealous brothers. Joseph, however, knew God, and had deep seated faith in the love of God to pull him through that, and many other trials. Black sheep are in a situation where there is usually nowhere to turn, no one to trust. They have no one but God or occasionally one of His angels of mercy to love them.
My friend’s angel of mercy was her Jewish psychiatrist. Funny how that works but her friends and her were obsessed with all things Jewish, and all things about those who loved and cared for their crushed psyches. That would be a blessed thing to be, maybe not as a psychiatrist, but just to be there and a messenger of God’s love to those most lonely people, the black sheep of the family.
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Thanks for sharing.
God bless~
I would have loved to see you expand more on that. Maybe even have given her a name and used dialog to help develop the character even more. It didn't need to be her real name, but I really wanted to know more about how she coped and is doing now.
Life can be so hard and there are many people who are cutters or hurt themselves. It's becoming an epidemic--a way to stop the "heart hurt" and focus on the physical pain. I'm so glad you shared this story because people need to know about self-mutilation so they can spot it and try to help. Your story inspired me to say a special prayer for your friend and any other person who may be slicing into their tender skin right now. God knows all of their names and cares deeply about each one. Great job!
When a person can help another make the better choice, the past only becomes a memory and not an anchor.
We need to listen and learn.