FROM HUDSON
I asked Hudson (age 17), as someone who has had his own journey and victory with this, to write down what he would want parents to know about their children and then what he wanted to say to a child directly walking through this same thing.
To Parents:
- We aren’t doing it on purpose and want to be free from it more than you do
- We don’t feel the spirit in the moment, but feel awful (slimed) afterward
- Notice it afterward, and it is overwhelming
- The anger isn’t helpful
- Tried to do the right thing (in most cases) – just felt something working against me
- Didn’t do it with the purpose of hurting someone
- Don’t know what to say in the moment – feel frozen/paralyzed
- Don’t enjoy or like when I’m being influenced by that spirit
- Not really that mad at parents, more at self, or just mad in general; not targeted at someone.
- Feel agitated that this keeps happening
To Kids:
- Your parents still love you
- You can do the right thing
- You don’t always mess up
- You can get out of this spirit’s influence
- It’s not hopeless
- You will get through this
- You’re not helpless
- You are not all alone
- There are people that love you
- You are powerful, but have to decide for who (which kingdom)
- Your parents aren’t really mad at you – they are mad at the spirit influencing you
- This isn’t you
- This is not who God has called you to be