You were made in My image. Love is the only true. If your heart aches, you, in your heart, are not being true. Sometimes you fight your love. It is not a lie that you love. The lie is that you do not.

Your heart will open again. The plum of your heart is filled to bursting with love. Anything else you spy in your heart is a thief in the night.

And so now forgive what ails you. Forgiveness means that you withdraw your armaments. Disarm yourself. Return to innocence.

You are not to guard yourself. Nor are you to mourn.

When you hear about parents abusing their own child, even if the child is now your grown friend, naturally you are dismayed. This is difficult for you to understand let alone accept. From your perspective, there was no excuse. But from the parents' perspective at the time, it was their right. Were they ill? Certainly. Did they perpetuate enormous cruelty? Yes.