A LETTER TO GOD ON ANGER
Author's Note:
The letter below was written
several years ago. It has never been updated because the thoughts have
remained the same. I still question God every other day and I still question
the DID diagnosis to this very day! I have received many emails from very
supportive people asking questions, offering encouragement, and others who
just want to say "I know what you are going through. Hang in there." May God bless each and every one of you.
Dear
God,
Some days I just
want to HATE You. My therapist says that it's ok for me to hate You, that You
understand, that it's just one part of me that hates you. I think there is far
more than just one part, but we'll go with that for now. As I write this, I
wonder "why am I wasting my breath talking to a God who's already chosen to
let me be abused?" It's in the past. You certainly can't change Your choices
now. You think You made the right choice. The only choice. Did You ever consider
what Your choices would mean for me? Did You even think about me?
Why would You let me be born to
a family who would seven years later give me away? They didn't want me. You
let them turn me away. For what? To be abused sexually for the rest of my life?
How can You say You couldn't stop the abuse? You are God, Creator of the Universe.
You could do anything You wanted to. You could have stepped in and said, "No!
You will not hurt her!" But no. You let all those people do whatever they wanted
to me.
You made me have DID. How cruel
to give me something to make the pain of knowing go away only to take it back
when I'm an adult. This is ruining my life, my relationships, my trust. At the
best point in my life, when all was going so well, BAM! You dropped DID in my
lap like a bomb. I became a plague. No one would touch me for fear I would transfer
the plague onto them. I became a leper.
How could You stand by and watch
as Your own kids destroyed what little I had left of me? They crucified me.
They said I wasn't one of Yours. I didn't belong. I wasn't wanted. I wasn't
saved. I became something so evil that one woman ran in panic as I reached out
to touch her newborn baby.
If this is how You show Your love
for me, then I want no part of You. You can take Your Christianity and shove
it!
My therapist wants me to see Jesus
as I remember my past. I don't see the point. He's controlled by You! He wouldn't
lift a finger to help me either. He was there with me in the room as it all
took place. So what?! He did nothing to help me.
Even today as I cry out in physical
pain, You do nothing to help. The parts inside seem to hold all the cards, not
You. Are You even real? Do You really exist? Maybe You are nothing more than
a fantasy that I use to have someone to talk to, to cry to, and to yell at.
Maybe You are nothing more than an illusion to a better place. Some kind of
hope. Surely if You were real You wouldn't stand by as innocent babies are being
raped by their own biological fathers!
I hate You so much! I do! So why
do I continue to cry out to You for help, support, hope...Why do I NEED You
so much? Why must I continue to try and live a good and moral life? Is there
really any hope in You? Does a better life really exist for me? Is it possible
for me to live happy, healed, saved?
Your kids told me I wasn't saved.
They said I was a waste of time. Do You feel the same way? Will I ever be worthy
of Your time? How can I expect You to love me when I just seem to hate You these
days?
Can You hear the little ones cry
out to You? They love You. They haven't given up on You. They believe You are
real. They believe that one day You will save them from their torment. They
have confidence that one day they will sit on Your lap and You will cry with
them. You will tell them how sorry You are and how much You loved them and wanted
to save them. They will pardon You and forgive You. But they are children. They
don't know any better. They won't hold it against You that You stood by and
let them be abandoned, rejected, abused, and left behind by those who were supposed
to love them forever.
Why must I feel guilty as I spew
out my anger, hatred, and contempt for You? Why must I feel like I am the one
in the wrong? I was the child! I had no way to protect myself against those
people You put in charge of me! You were in charge. You made the decisions that
brought pain into my life. You allowed it to happen!
I did nothing wrong! I didn't make
those people hurt me! I was the child! This is not my fault. So why am I the
only one suffering? What about the abusers? Why do they get to walk around free
as they live their lives as though nothing ever happened. Like they did nothing
wrong? They have locked me up in this prison we call a MIND and they walk around
freely. Why must I continue to pay for the sins they committed against me? It
isn't fair!
I hate You for not making them
pay! I hate You for locking me up! I hate You for not taking away my pain! I
hate You for letting Your own kids destroy what relationship I did have with
You.
I loved You. I cleaved to You.
I prayed. I begged. I cried out to You every hour of every day and You turned
Your back to me. I must not belong to You. Your kids must have spoken the truth.
Surely You would have helped one of Your own.
How do I become one of Your own?
You say, "Whoever calls on My name shall be saved." But that can't be true because
I call on Your name constantly!
My therapist says You are a parent,
like me. She asks me, "If your child said 'I hate you!' would you still love
her?" Of course I wouldn't! She says You are the same way. She says You do love
me. You say, "My sheep will know My voice." This proves You don't love me because
You don't speak to me. Anymore. You used to. When I was at The Church. Before
Your kids deemed me unsavable. Maybe You agreed with them. Maybe You're not
worth my hatred. Maybe You have turned a deaf ear to me long ago. Maybe I don't
deserve Your ear...
Am I unsavable? GPIC