One day, about 7 years into living with post-separation abuse (this is how I refer to the period when one is still experiencing parental alienation (PA), even years after a divorce has been finalized) I was watching hour 3,428 of a true crime binge of a cross-section of documentaries, podcasts, and true crime non-fiction books, presumably to make myself feel better when it dawned on me…
I was watching Snapped and randomly chose an episode. If you’re not familiar with Snapped, it’s a show with 38,974 seasons and just as many episodes and it’s all about women who “snap” and commit homicide (usually against their spouse or lover).
The first episode I chose at random was about a woman whose husband divorced her and married his secretary after 11 years of marriage, took both sons with him, kicked the ex-wife out of the home of their marriage, and moved the secretary in. That ex-wife is now in prison for double homicide against her ex and his new wife.
The next episode was more of the same from a different scorned wife. The third episode was more of the same from still another wife who’d been robbed of her home and children and is now in prison after having committed homicide against her former husband.
In my Christian walk with the Lord, He speaks in threes when He wants me to pay close attention to something.
It was after watching that third randomly selected episode that I felt the Holy Spirit within me say, “God saved you from a fate just like this”. I almost gasped aloud! Why was it that I didn’t take vengeance into my own hands? Well, for me, I do believe vengeance belongs to the Lord and I always have. This belief has thus far saved my life and my freedom.
“For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.” -Hebrews 10:30
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