If you read this post on Bring the Rain, you will understand what I am about to say.....
http://audreycaroline.blogspot.com/2008/11/redeemed.html
Lord, I thank you for my pain. I thank you for my nightmares, my memories, and my flashbacks.
I thank you for giving me a mother that was not whole, because in doing so, you showed me what kind of mother I don't want to be.
Thank you for giving me such a selfish father.
Thank you for abandonment and hurt.
Thank you for disappoinment and unmet expecations.
Thank you for my losses.
Lord, thank you for hobbling me with the weighty yoke of a thousand haunting memories, then lifting it and bearing it with me.
Thank you, Lord, for pain. Thank you for strength.
I am thankful, even when it hurts. I am thankful, because I am your child, and I don't have to bear it alone.
I am thankful.
