A young girl sits in her room as the sounds of physical violence echo
down the hall. Her father regularly erupts, a volcano whose rage is fed
by the notion that he is the head of a “good Christian family” and that
his wife and children must submit to his will. The girl also knows that
their church pastor is a pedophile who preys on her sister, but her
church has turned inward to protect the pastor instead of reaching out
to help her sister. The girl is terrified for her mother, her sister,
herself. So she prays, and this offers her peace in the midst of the
violence. That peace will sustain her for years to come.
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