“…purify your hearts, you double-minded.” James 4:8b
An abuse victim’s thought process is a paradox as her mind waffles between extremes – a simmering resentment toward her abuser juxtaposed against a desperate, if destructive, addiction to him. The Scripture says that “…the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.”[i] It is a vivid picture, capturing well the tempest of confusion in which many an abuse victim finds herself as she endeavors to make sense of the mixed messages she hears.