Clogs
Today the water-softener repairman
came to the house. He told me all our
filters are clogged. We have an iron build-up, and rust and iron are spitting
into the water faucets. No wonder my laundry is so dull; it now makes perfect
sense—the pure flow of water is obstructed. As a result, iron-colored water is infiltrating my wash and ruining my clothes. I’m not just being a domestic dropout, there’s a reason for my
red-tinted tee-shirts.
It’s kind of like that after abuse.
Sometimes our filters are clogged. Abuse has impaired the pure flow of
reasoning, and it clogs, even colors our thoughts. Everyone has trouble now and
then seeing the truth clearly, but we survivors are filled with distortions and
false-beliefs. The one who said he was trustworthy became an assailant. Words
that convinced us to build trust, crashed down around us in broken rubble.
The acute psychological wound from sexual assault distorts
thought-filters. If left unchecked, distortions can take over where abuse left
off—assaulting the mind. Lies and
mis-beliefs will tint how we see the world, and devastate our lives. But like
my clogged filters in the water-softener, there’s a reason we survivors struggle
in our thoughts. Getting to the source of the problem can help unclog those
filters and allow truth to flow into our minds and hearts. The infiltration of negative, distorted thoughts can be caught, instead of coloring your perspective.
Have you ever
detected a clog in your mental- filter?
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