Rising from the Ashes of Abuse: Christine Caine & Jennifer Clinger

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🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Christine Caine is a writer, speaker and activist. Her story of healing came over many years as she lived in faith to recover from sexual abuse that happened in her childhood. Her latest book, a 365-Day devotional, called “Unshakeable,” provides daily reminders that even in an unstable world, God is always stands firm. Jennifer Clinger is a graduate of Thistle Farms, a social justice enterprise. Jennifer describes how she gave up on life after being a victim of abuse and tragedy, and traded herself on the street to support the drug habit that numbed her pain. After years of unsuccessfully trying to fill the void in her life, she realized that when her heart became hard toward God, He never turned away from her.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today we speak with Christine Kane, who is a writer, speaker, and activist.
0:08.0	Christine grew up in Sydney, Australia as the daughter of Greek immigrants. Although close to her nuclear family, she became the victim of abuse from members of her extended family when she was very young.
0:19.0	Christine shares how she struggled with what happened to her and how her faith helped her overcome
0:24.4	the shame and worthlessness she felt for so many years.
0:28.7	When you start being abused, you think what is happening to you is wrong.
0:34.4	I think as it continues over a sustained period of time,
0:39.3	you begin to think there's something wrong with you,
0:42.1	that's why it's happening and I think to be
0:44.3	honest you know I grew up most of my life I think I wrote this when I wrote the book
0:47.8	unashamed I wrote this to say I could not remember a time in my life where I did not know shame, where I did not think
0:57.4	there is something wrong with me. Now that of course the abuse was a big part of that
1:02.2	but I think also being a Greek girl in Australia was a huge part of that.
1:06.4	I wasn't like all of the other kids at school. I was very sporty. I loved academics. I think I didn't fit the typical Greek girl mold. You know, I didn't want to play with Barbie dolls. I didn't want to do ballet and so I remember just growing up where my mom would always say you know
1:24.7	Hristina why can't you be like all the other girls why can't you just be a
1:28.6	normal girl and you know the kids at school would be you know why is your lunch why does it smell different to ours why is it
1:36.5	feta cheese and garlic and olives and it's not vegemite sandwiches you know
1:40.2	why can't you be like us and then with abuse I think it just perpetuates
1:45.6	something to your core when you are being you know the word abuse means to use an
1:50.4	object for which it was never designed and for you know many many years well over a
1:56.1	decade of my life I was used for a purpose for which God never designed me and so if you
2:02.1	had a known me back then, I was just full of shame, full of guilt, no doubt about that,
2:09.2	full of condemnation.
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