Overcomers...

What does it mean to overcome...

Is it simply getting over what we have been through?

I dont think so, I am almost certain that overcoming involves not only getting over it, because getting over something can simply mean that the day in which it occurs has passed and we are still standing...

Overcoming to me means not only getting through it and over it but learning something from it and being willing to share it with others who may be on the same mission...

There were times in the past when someone would share something with me and I would be unable to say, "I went through that also." But God removed that from me. Now I can say, I lived in an abusive household, I know exactly how it feels for an elder to take an advantage of a situation because they knew you loved them and was so confused about what they did meant and would never tell. I suffered from the, IF I HIDE IT FROM THE WORLD and LOOK OKAY IT WILL BE OKAY SYNDROME...

Many of us suffer from it and it manifests in different ways, If we are a hundred pounds overweight and there is no true medical reason for it, we are suffering. That is about more than loving good food. I once had a friend who was close to four hundred pounds. I could not stand to see her eat. One day she told me that her mother's husband had molested her and she figured if she got fat enough no one would ever do that again. I know from whence she spoke because food covered a lot of pain in my life. I have never been that big but have carried between 20 and 50 pounds more than I needed to most of my adult life.

It can also manifiest in a distrust of others, a sharp tongue and scathing attitude or the reverse. At any rate until we start to deall with those core issues, those things that have made us sad, mad or fat... we will never overcome...

I am in a season of trying my hand at really overcoming and not going through the motions of it and not doing it to the extent that it will make those in my life feel better... It is deeper than all that. Overcoming is real work.

JUST LOVE!

angelia

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