Posts tagged adoration
Personal Vocation, Personal Healing
Personal Vocation, Personal Healing

Upon entering religious life, I tried to hide in the coping mechanisms that had worked for me growing up, such as people-pleasing and anticipating others’ needs. I desired to please the Lord, could follow community customs and was good at serving others. Not only was I good, but was praised for my attentiveness to the needs of others and my generosity in service. As I continued further in formation, those coping mechanisms started to unravel and the truth of the pain I was in surfaced.

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First-Person, Healing JourneySister M. Lucia Richardson, OSFLife-Giving Woundsadoration, St. Francis, St. Clare, prayer, anger, Eucharist, freedom, Mary, identity, Grace, Vocation, Religious Life, self-protection, self-sufficiency, self-depreciationComment
Remaining Secure in the Father’s Love
Remaining Secure in the Father’s Love

This healing journey has been bittersweet for me. I have come to grips with the fact that I am a survivor of child abuse. The term still brings tears to my eyes and probably will for a very long time, only because it can sometimes make me feel like a broken doll, or what may be a more popular term, “damaged goods.”

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Healing Journey, Art, Stories of HealingAnonymousLife Giving WoundsMary, trauma, prayer, adoration, mother relationship, domestic violenceComment