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Sister,
First off, as you know there are people here that love you and will stand with you concerning your emotional and physical healing process, no matter how long it takes.
We will also pray for God's justice concerning this, and know He does not take lightly people in the world who would do such a thing as this.
Not by a long shot beloved.
Also these things happen sometimes to ones who do attend church, pray on a regular basis, tithe and study God's Word to show themselves approved at all times, demonstrating much love and sacrifice as you have in your commitment to serve God, in a way that is most pleasing to Him.
It is certainly a sad day to here that one of our own has been shamfully handled in such a way, and believe you me that if SAE, or some others here, would have been there with you then things very well would have turned out in a way not very advantagous for your attackers at all, sister.
However, I have a wife and two very attractive daughters (they take after their mother they tell me
), both now in there twenties, and I have always tryed to instruct them about different senarios that a woman or even a man could be in that would put them at a disadvantage pertaining to an attack by a crimminal element much like what you have just experianced.
I am certainly no expert about security measures that people should take when out and about or even right there at one's home.
Now, some of these events happen and even if everything security-wise is being adhered to, these things do happen anyway and cannot be avoided.
I drove my wife and daughters back then in high school to a mall in Ft.Worth several years ago, on the spur of the moment, as my girls were in band at their High School and had to have something they could only get there for band the next day.
So we went, and I must say I wasn't too happy about taking them there because my sister had worked as a manager at the Sears store at that mall, and had some stories to tell about some things, like robberys and muggings that had taken place there at night, and the security there being totally inadaquate and so on.
Anyways when we arrived I had already come up with my security plan, which was after finding out that the store they where going to was right inside on of the entrances, I dropped them off at the door and then parked and stayed outside, where I had a line of sight with the glass door of that entrance so that I could not only watch comings and goings of people in there but also the entrance to the store they were in.
I was armed and had a two million candle-power spotlight ready to beam.
Now my wife and girls have always thought some of the things I have done over the years concerning them concerning security, have been somwhat overboard but I'll bet if they spoke with you now they might very well indeed come away from that conversation with a different attitude about such.
Anyway back to the mall;
I sat out there in my truck probably about thirty to forty minutes, waiting for them to do their thing.
It was getting pretty late and people were now filtering out into the parking lot, costumers and various store employees alike.
After watching them walk through the paking lot, it didn't take me very long to figure out something that was terribly wrong here.
That was almost all of them were not paying attention to their surroundings out more than about ten feet.
Most of them didn't even notice me setting in my truck, a couple of them,walking right past my door!
If I would have been there that night as a crimminal type for whatever reason I could have with a weapon, easily done anything I would have wanted to do, because the people out there walking around were totally ignorant in most cases, about their own lack pertaining to having a personal security plan and not even bothering to watch out for themselves at all.
Alot of people make it easy for these preditory types to do their thing on society, and in most cases these crimminals even have the choice of who that they victimize because people many times aren't even aware of them hidding in plain sight.
I'm not saying here that you didn't take all the necessary steps to ensure your saftey in any way.
You very well may have.
I was a corrections officer at one time in my life and got a very eye opening education from the imates I,''supervised'' there.
The overwhelming majority told me that they would usualy attack the ones that either appeared to not be aware of their surrondings as I stated above, or just plain put themselves in a bad position.
They would also state as a coveniance for not feeling guilty of being responsible for their actions as all sociopaths do, that if there victims whould have been watching out for themselves and carrying themselves in a way that exhibited strength, then they would likley not attack those and wait for a someone who appeared to be,''weak'' to them.
This is why we call them,''predators'' for they reason no differently than a coyote or a jackal in that sense.
They go by pack rules and mentality.
However, you must be strong right now and trust God.
He has a ultimate plan for you concerning this, and if you believe this, then your anger and the tears you shed now ,very well may stop this from happening to someone else or worse, in the future.
You are a witness concerning this now as many others are also.
There is a opportunity through Christ in this.
Lean on Jesus right now and draw strength from Him and grow, so that others around you latter will have the benifit of that growth and understanding.
For God in His wisdom will never allow anything to happen to te ones called by His name that they ultumatly cannot handle or where His purpose is not involved.
The ones who did these things to you will not escape punishment, you will see this through your own eyes.
We will pray for you daily,
Please keep us updated if you can, and there as been a prayer thread added here with a list of people in the OP who you can IM or just post there anything additionally also, if you want to.
Love, peace and healing in Jesus name,
Your brother,
SAE