Broken: A Story of Abuse and Survival

by Anne Peterson

You cannot love someone deeply and simply erase them from your life when they die. It doesn’t work like that.

This really hits close to home.

Our life was a big roller coaster. We’d do okay for a period of time. But after a while, like an unreliable car, we’d need an overhaul. We were about due.

Abuse Every time that I was hit, it left a bruise inside. And ever since, I’ve spent my life just trying hard to hide.

Would you step a little closer, just to let me see my own reflection in your eyes; to see there IS a me?

Angry Tears I wasn’t one to fight at all— I never did it well. And when I did get angry, I couldn’t even yell. My anger lived inside me all locked away for years. The only way it got away was through my many tears.

God knows you completely. You’re important to him for he’s the same God who knows when even one sparrow falls.