I began this study with bitterness (though it took me a while to really see it!). I was still very much stuck in the victim mentality and perhaps was still silently running from others and even my own self...but self - with limitations and inadequacies - will always be with me, and that's okay, because God is sufficient. Through the study, I found my focus to become less about me and more about my Lord and Savior, Christ. Chapter four - describing His suffering - opened my eyes, and helped me consider much. In gratefulness to God, it is my desire to be used of Him to love and serve others - especially those who I once considered my worst abusers (physically, sexually, emotionally). I ask, in the name of Jesus, that He would give me the wisdom and guidance needed to live in such a way that my life would always bring honor and glory to Him.
