Spiritual Advice and Guidance Blog: Urantia Book: Surviving childhood abuse

Q: I am looking for information on how to deal with surviving childhood abuse

A: On a personal level, the only suggestion I can offer is that you simply learn to deal with it â€“ the likelihood that anyone lives a full life and departs without having been afflicted in some manner is about zero so we all are faced with two choices in how to deal with our predicaments: either to ruminate on them or to get over them. In the end it's all up to you; no one can do much more than offer advice.

From Urantia Book teachings there are several quotes that may help you get a different perspective and they are:

5. Difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs.
8. Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort.
12. The greatest affliction of the cosmos is never to have been afflicted. Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation.
16. You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt except in adversity.
18. Impatience is a spirit poison; anger is like a stone hurled into a hornet's nest.
22. The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do.

The Urantia Book has this to say about Jesus as a child:

Perhaps his most unusual and outstanding trait was his unwillingness to fight for his rights. Since he was such a well developed lad for his age, it seemed strange to his playfellows that he was disinclined to defend himself even from injustice or when subjected to personal abuse.

Jesus said:

Throughout the vicissitudes of life, remember always to love one another. Do not strive with men, even with unbelievers. Show mercy even to those who despitefully abuse you. Show yourselves to be loyal citizens, upright artisans, praiseworthy neighbors, devoted kinsmen, understanding parents, and sincere believers in the brotherhood of the Father's kingdom. And my spirit shall be upon you, now and even to the end of the world.

One final quote:

The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the universal sovereignty of God. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following:

1. Is courage â€“ strength of character â€“ desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
2. Is altruism â€“ service of one's fellows â€“ desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.
3. Is hope â€“ the grandeur of trust â€“ desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.
4. Is faith â€“ the supreme assertion of human thought â€“ desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.
5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.
6. Is idealism â€“ the approaching concept of the divine â€“ desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.
9. Is pleasure â€“ the satisfaction of happiness â€“ desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever present experiential possibilities.

Labels: abuse, adversity, affliction, childhood, Jesus, love, The Urantia Book

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