Sleeping with the Enemy

As I was about to take my first steps into a prison, he got out of his car at the gates and looked at me...

Your not really going to do this are you?"

"I have to.."

"Whatever, fine, go get raped, have fun with that"

"Ya know what? You have already violated me for years, there is nothing more they could take, YOU took it all"

He sped off, tires screaching, wheels spinning.

That was the first day I stepped into prison ministry and into the annointing the Lord had placed on my life. It was also the first day I stood up to the abuse. Somehow, someway, the inmates saved my life. If they could treat me with respect, why couldnt he? It made me think, all these years I thought the enemies were behind bars, turned out, I was sleeping with the real enemy.

Too often the ones that hurt the most are the ones in our families, our spouses, our friends, decorated in society, supported by family and found living "normal", lives. They do not appear harmful, angry, and rarely do they wear a shirt that says "I abuse woman". Instead they blend in, talk quite the talk, act so charming, fool many but one woman knows the truth.

"Decoding the truth from lies is hard, decoding the people that speak the lies, that is the hard part." ~Angel Alyson

Educate yourselves and others about rape, sexual assault, battery, emotional abuse and learn the warning signs so that neither you, nor your daughter finds themselves sleeping with the enemy.

There are ways to set yourself free from the torment, the negativity, the abuse, the lies and begin to heal. Heal. Heal. Heal.