To Women Everywhere: You are not alone

You are not alone
You think you are
You think there is no other
But just look around
See beyond

The sky is not always bluer
Nor the grass greener
somewhere else

There is you
and many more too
who only see singular pain
Despair catches us
and we are stuck in its trap
desperate to get out
but not knowing how.

You are not alone
You think you are
You think there is no other
But just look around
See beyond

The woman who cannot become pregnant
The woman whose child dies
The woman whose child is murdered
The woman who does not carry a child to full term
The woman who does carry a child to full term, but has a stillbirth

The woman who is a victim of rape
The woman who is battered and beaten by live-in boy friends and/or husbands
The woman whose child is deformed and ridiculed
The woman who does not care for her own children
and countless more

You are not alone
You think you are
You think there is no other

But just look around
See beyond the confines of your mind

Others are hurting too

I know
I was one of those women
I too felt I was the only one
although I knew differently
I struggled to come to terms
as I knew others too struggled
It was not an overnight reversal
Thinking about it didn't bring me
out of my despair
but merely dug my depressed hole
ever deeper

But I was not alone
I did not truly think I was
I knew there were others

But it was me
as it is you
of whom the walls
of lies
and deceptive thoughts
needed to come down

Our thoughts
held captive
by what we do not have
by what we have lost
by what we believe we deserve.
We are continually
saddened and remorseful,
consumed by feelings
that do not bring comfort
only further pain
and imprisonment.

The walls …
The lies
The deceptive controlling thoughts –

Replace them!

Replace the lies with the Truth
It is the Truth that will set us all free

Whose Truth?
What Truth?

God’s Truth!

It is because of God’s love for us
that He came to earth
as Jesus,
born to the Virgin Mary
Son of Man
and Son of God

God’s Truth is Jesus!

Jesus tells us in John 3:16 (look it up),
“I am the way and the life and the truth.”

What way?
What life?
What truth?

God’s Truth --
found in and of and through
Jesus
whose life, death, burial and resurrection
shows us the way
to true freedom
to eternal peace

Won’t you come to Jesus
Open your heart
your mind
your whole being
to everything He offers?

Say yes to Jesus
Yes, I’ll come
Yes, I want to know more about you
Yes, I want to be free from these thoughts
that keep me confined

You are not alone
You think you are
You think there is no other
But just look around
See beyond

Jesus is in the midst
His spirit lives
within each and every person
who has accepted, believed, surrendered
their life for His

Jesus, whose death
came about
because
of the sins of mankind,
went to the cross
at Calvary,
 gave His life
for all --
past, present and future generations.

But that isn't all
for Death is darkness
and Jesus represents Light.

So He was buried.

Jesus overcame
the darkness of death and of sin
when, after 3 days in the tomb,
He rose from the dead.
He is risen!

Through His blood shed for us,
we can become free --
free to live in His Truth --
The Life and Way
of the Lord Jesus

and Free to destroy deceptive thoughts
Free to remove strongholds
Free to truly live in the love of
Our Lord and Savior
Free to follow
The Way
The Life
and The Truth
of Jesus

You are not alone
You think you are
You there there is no other
But just look around
See beyond

God loves you
God is good
God wants you to have His best
God accepts you
God is enough
God can be trusted
God doesn't make mistakes
God’s love (grace) is sufficient for me
God’s Word is sufficient to lead me, teach me, heal me

You are not alone
God is right there
waiting for you

Won’t you come?

You are not alone.

(c) November 10-12, 2013