Article January 13, 1997 Issue

What prepared me for healing

Michele Newport

Bookstores are filled with self-help and spiritual guidebooks. They promise to inspire you, to lead you to find the "inner child." If you are searching for spiritual answers, how can you be sure of what will truly help?

The book most successful in solving problems is one of the oldest—the Bible. Every challenge that mankind faces today finds its answer in the Bible's spiritual message. For instance, to learn who we are as God's child, we can open to the first chapter of this book. There we are told that God created man, male and female, in His image and likeness. Beholding His entire creation, He saw that everything was good.

If someone is carrying guilt for past mistakes or has felt victimized, however, it may seem impossible to believe that anything can be completely good. There was a time when I felt this way. As a young girl I had been molested once by a neighbor whom I had loved and trusted. Like a "textbook case," I carried the guilt and humiliation of that encounter for years. I was afraid of relationships with others, thinking that they always must have an ulterior motive. Needless to say, I wasn't very happy!

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