Wounds From Our Childhood

We go through life carrying with us the unfinished business from our pasts many looking for someone to rescue them!
These things don't have to be catastrophic...
Or even something that would bother most...
But wounding still...

As a child with freckles or hand-me down clothes...
Parents that are too busy struggling with their own lives to pay attention to the pain of their child...
Other children sharing at Christmas what they got from Santa...
Why didn't I get that toy that I wanted? I was a good little girl or boy...
Not being picked first on a team in school, but always last...
School work that would not be as hard if there was someone at home to explain some things...
Teacher being more interested in the children who's parents
were room mothers or friends...
Mom and Dad are older than the other kids parents...
You're embarrassed to have yours come to school...
Parents that slap their child and leave marks that can't be hidden easily...
A child that has to wear glasses and endure the others name calling...
Born with a cleft pallet and have a speech problem...
Mom and dad are in jail so child is in a foster home that doesn't care at all about them...
Grandma is raising you because mom was just too young...

So many things can cause a person to carry wounds with them into adulthood...
These things can make you stronger in many ways or they can break you...
Either way they stay with you...
Hidden often in your subconscious but still there...
Effecting everything you do in life because it forms the filter that you view the world through...
Search your soul and forgive yourself for being a small person struggling to grow up in this harsh world...
Accept friendship and kindness and love for yourself...
Rescue your inner child...
You do deserve it!

~~Marlys