depth of the lonely storms faced in life, and God himself wants to rebuild hurting people from the inside out. He can repair what may, from a human perspective, seem impossible to mend. Understandably, however, an abused person may have difficulty in trusting God. Abused people frequently put God into the same category as those humans who betrayed their position of trust by committing abuse in the first place, so proving themselves to be untrustworthy. The abused person may feel that God has let
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