City: Jacksonville

Brain Injury: Domestic Trauma, Sexual Abuse

Explanation of Mask: Life always goes well when you suppress the darkness of the past.  I was living a good life, feeling great, was on the mission field and even leading praise and worship.  Until….I crashed one day, and the darkness of depression opened the memory of sexual abuse I suffered as a child which was more than I could bear.  Those who believed and counted on me could not understand why I could not come out of my darkness which was even more difficult for me to face.  They didn’t know of my shame and I could not put voice to it. But I am learning bit by bit that there is a brighter day for me, and I strive not to let the darkness win.  It will not win!