Over the past thirty years the definition of family violence has changed. Family violence obviously includes emotional wounds and scars that are just as damaging as physical wounds. Remember the absurd cliché, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me”?
How damaging to the self can long-term, harsh criticism be on a person? Criticism damages self-esteem and self-worth as it rips apart a person’s self-image. Criticism transforms into emotional abuse when it judges a person to be unacceptable and unworthy of love and affection.
Listen to the words of Jesus: “Do not judge others so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you by the same rules you applied to others. Why then do you look at the speck in a person’s eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?” So show mercy and kindness, for these attributes build treasures to endure for all eternity.
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“Do not judge others, and God will not judge you; do not condemn others, and God will not condemn you; forgive others, and God will forgive you.”
~Luke 6:37 Good
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