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Wow, this is really freaking me out...I wake up at 3.00am all the time lately. I have recently been following...

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everytime i go to bed before 12am i always wake up 3am why is that and idk why

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Renetta,
I'm sorry that you've had such a terrible life. You still love God, but your mad at him for not saving you. Child abuse is so rampant, that there has got to be a good reason for it. One that we aren't going to find out until we die. One thing for sure, God's not doing it, so your anger is misplaced.
You can't rely on the leaders of the Church, teacher's, or any of those people. (half of them are doing it themselves) They don't want to get involved in such an ugly subject. You are the only one that you can rely on, with this subject. Parent's of abused children will know about it,(sometimes it's one of the parents) and not tell the authorities, because they don't want the rest of the family, friends, and the police to know such a dirty thing is going on. And they are so stupid that they really do believe, that a child won't remember or be hurt by it!
The reason I keep using the word dirty, is because that's the way it was put to me, when I tried to save a child that was being molested by telling her parents. They preferred to ignore it.
People are the ones who hurt us!(not God) He's the one who will save us.
He hasn't let me know why he allows abuse to happen, but he has put a feeling in my heart, letting me know he has a good reason. It could be so those people will go to hell, or to see how we handle it, or to see how the people who didn't protect us(after we told) handle it. All I know is there is a good reason.
Bad things are always going to happen, amputated legs, MS, depression, parents getting murdered. God isn't making these things happen, but he will get you out of it. If you tell him that your mad at him, and will he please take that anger for him out of your heart, he will. It might take a few days, but he will do it. You know how he has his own time table and it never matches ours! He might be testing you, I don't know.
You need to contact the person who hurt you, take somebody with you and go to his house. Tell him that you are telling everybody, even the police. Shake him up a little. Let me warn you, he's going to deny it, so be ready for that. It doesn't matter, yell at the bastard "Everybody knows!" That will bother him more then anything. And when you leave, I guarantee you that a 10 ton weight will be lifted from your shoulders! And a lot of hate will be gone also.
Call the child abuse hotline before you go, (i did it when I was 31) They are so nice, and the lady will even go to his house and shake him up.(if you want her to) Telling them is a great weight lifter also. Go back to God, so he can be back with you. He will give you the strength that your needing right now. We leave God, he never leaves us.(NEVER) He is just waiting for you to come back, because he misses you. God bless you, and I will pray for you tonight.
P.S. You do not want to go to hell, because guess who you'll run right smack dab into? Him for eternity!

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God is Alive, Here, and Everywhere!

I can remember being close to God, as young as 4yrs. old. I was too young to have read or heard anything...

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I can remember being close to God, as young as 4yrs. old. I was too young to have read or heard anything about him that I could understand, I just felt him with me. It would be late at night, my mother was out drinking, I was home alone, and I'd be terrified. So I would start talking to God, asking him to keep my mother safe, and to bring her home soon!

I'd be scared and I would start crying, and all the sudden he would let me feel his presence, and he let me know she would be home soon and for me not to be afraid, because he was there with me. And he's been by my side ever since.

I just went through breast cancer, and I wasn't alone, God was right by my side, as usual. He has always been with me, through the good times and the bad. Every decision I've ever made, big or small was made with him. He's more like my best friend, my father, my brother, and even my mother. He's not like a make believe thing, that some people believe in and some don't. I can feel him, just as if a live person where standing beside me.

I'm writing this because I want everybody to know, he will be with them like that too. All they have to do, is ask! People don't believe that it's that simple, but it is. You don't think your worthy to ask him that, or to ask him for anything, so you don't. That's where people are wrong, the truth is this, nobody is worthy, not even a Saint. That's why Jesus came down and died on the cross, so that we all could be worthy.

God made us from himself, we are direct decedents of him. And he loves us more, then even the Angel's. He is made of nothing but pure love. He's not like us, he's not human and doesn't hate like humans, he always forgives, he will always love us. The same way a parent loves there child, he loves us, except a million times more.

His love is unconditional, all he wants from us is to love him. And to try and live our lives the way Jesus taught. To forgive people(especially our enemies) to love, to have tolerance, to be kind, to be giving, basically he just wants us to be decent human beings. We can't be perfect because we are human, and he knows this. That's why, when you make a mistake, and you are truly sorry, he instantly forgives us. He doesn't expect us to be perfect, because he knows that's impossible. He just wants you to be the best that you can.

Tonight when you go to bed, say your prayer's and ask God if he will let you feel him beside you. He's always there, but sometimes we can't feel him because of something that we're doing. He never leaves us, we sometimes leave him. Say your sorry for your sins from today and ask him to please let you feel his closeness. That's all you have to do,(not be perfect, just ask for him) and he will be there! God bless you all.

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Hi Dianne,
I would like to answer this, buy it's 3yrs. old. I'm really not sure how this thing works with problems that are years old problems.

No matter how we think we feel consciously, sub-consciously we are mad at God because he didn't protect us. So I'm sure your angry at him, plus the abusers. And that's a lot of anger. I don't think we're going to know why God allows child abuse to happen until we die. I just know that there is a reason, because he has a reason for everything.

It could have something to do with who we turn out to be, what kind of person. What kind of women, wife, and mother. After you go through that, it either makes you strong, or it breaks you. I was broken for a lot of years, and I didn't get better until I was able to forgive, like you want to do.

The 1st thing you want to do is call the child abuse hot line. You won't believe how many women don't call until they're in there 30's and 40's. I called when I was 31 and told the lady how embarrassed I was for calling, when I was so old, but I didn't know what else to do. She was so nice and she kept calling me sweetie, while she let me tell her what happened.

You can't imagine how much weight was lifted off my shoulder's, just by telling this stranger my story. She explained a lot of stuff to me about child molester's and she said the way I was feeling was perfectly normal.(full of hate!) She said the statue of limitation was passed so she couldn't do anything to my uncle,(i didn't want to anyway) but she said she would go to his house and tell him she knew all about him etc..... It was wonderful!

Letting the person who hurt you know that you have told someone and that you are confronting them gets rid of a LOT OF ANGER, and it helps you forgive. You also need to realize you did nothing wrong! They are the bad guy, not you.

When you pray, tell God that your mad at him and for him to please let you feel him being closer. Tell him you can't feel him, and ask him to help you forgive him and the people who hurt you. Tonight pray for those horrible people who hurt you. You can tell God that your sorry about hating them but your trying to get over it, by praying for them. You can pray a half hearted prayer, it still counts.

Those are some of the things that I did, to get the hate out of me, and it worked! Praying for those bast#@%d really does help get hate out of your heart. Tell yourself, they have already taken enough from you, and your not going to give them your heart. Your not going to let them have the goodness that you still have in your heart. I will pray for you tonight and God bless you!
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