Were you growing up years, hard years, this is Max Locato. Family pain is the deepest pain because it was

inflicted so early. It involves people who should have been trustworthy. You were too young to process the

mistreatment. You didn't know how to defend yourself. Besides, the perpetrators of your pain were so large. Your dad, mom,

uncle, big brother, they towered over you, usually in signs, always in rank. When they judged

you falsely, you believed them. As a result, you've been operating on faulty data. You're stupid,

slow, dumb like your daddy, fat like your mama.

Decades later, these voices of defeat still echo in our subconscious, but they don't have

to. Romans 12 says, let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

You are God's child, his creation. You'll get through this.

You're a part of his family.