Fear Not Friday | Do you fear your mother?

On the discussion of fear, ask yourself why you wouldn’t fear someone who didn’t protect you when it was there job to protect you.

In my podcast The Pedophile Huntress https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jodie-tedder, I often hear from those that had their father as the abuser that they often struggle with the mother relationship, too. Why wouldn’t they?

A mother is defined by Oxford as “a woman in relation to her child or children.” That’s the defintion and rightfully so. The definition does not include words like protector, caregiver, or even nurse. It is simply a relational position between two human beings.

Now, the heart of humans want to define a mother as something very different — a compasion being that nurtures and cares deeply for her offspring. I know plenty of people that had lousy mothers. Deeper still those mothers that were complicit in the abuse through their actions or through their silence.

That’s devestating to a child. When a father begins his abuse a mother’s job is to protect, isn’t it? When a mother fails to protect her innocent offspring fear is born in the heart of that child. Isolation chills out love and fear resides in its place.

Do you rightfully have a fear for the person you called mother?

God is always available and looking for ways to love us. Cry out to him in your pain. Let him ease your burden by releasing it to his capable hands.

#UCU