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But Jesus called them unto him, and said, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."
“You see the suffering of children all the time nowadays. Wars and famines are played out before us in our living rooms, and almost every week there are pictures of children who have been through unimaginable loss and horror. Mostly they look very calm. You see them looking into the camera, directly at the lens, and knowing what they have been through you expect to see terror or grief in their eyes, yet so often there’s no visible emotion at all. They look so blank it would be easy to imagine that they weren’t feeling much."
― Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
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The Dream
I had a dream. It was peculiar, unique, and yet horrifying.
I usually glean my story ideas from strange dreams that I have. But this dream was different.
The subject matter screamed, 'TABOO' (you can't write about this). It was about children, abused children.
Now I don't write about child abuse. It's just not my style, but in this dream my 'job' was to rescue abused children. Which I gladly did from kidnappers and horrible people. What stuck out, what I recall, was the look these kids had afterwards: a faraway stare, a look of knowing what true evil was in the world. Of course in my dream, these kids all had psychologists treating them, but no amount of help could ever make them smile again or be who they once were.
Now here's the really strange part.
In the dream I prayed for these children. I asked God to tell me what I should do, other than help prosecute the predators. The message I received was, 'Send them home'. Well that's what my job was, to return these kids back to their homes and family. But as I thought about it, maybe that's not what God was saying; maybe he meant for me to literally and spiritually to send them back home . . . to Heaven.
So, in the dream, when I rescued a sexually abused child and saw that look they had, I knew they were never going to be the same again. So I would hold their little heads between my hands, kiss their forehead, and then quickly twist. I would painlessly break their necks and send them Home.
Afterwards I cried like a baby and asked for forgiveness.
When I awoke from this dream, I couldn't forget it. I told my wife about it and asked her if this would make a good story idea or if I should just leave it alone. I mean, at one point I am rescuing them and then toward the end I am mercifully killing them. I'm no better than their abductors.
So I'm torn. I'm not sure what to do with this subject. The haunting stare that these kids had was heartbreaking. They should never have had to experience this amount of evil at such a young age. But by 'sending them home' I was no better than the demon filth that did this to them in the first place.
Please let me know what you think, as writers, as parents.
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