We are wonderful, beautiful, sacred, deeply spiritual beings. Despite our pain and suffering, we are splendid and divine. I don’t know why I have lived the life I have, raped at age five, attracted to an older man at age 14, sex trafficked at age 16. I felt validated through sex until I didn’t. I felt shame. Many of us have and do, but we can put that suffering behind us. We can forgive ourselves and heal together. We can recover the purity of our souls, our being, we can find blessedness in who we are together. I reach out in love and compassion to you who may still suffer from whatever shame you feel or once felt that haunts you still. Forgiveness and unity are truly the answers. Suffer not in silence.
“Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.
Then, as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake,
Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;
Your life will bring heaven to earth.”
The Sutta Nipata – a Buddhist scripture