FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

Joshua 1: 9 Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

It is never too late too late to start something new in life. The death of one thing always means the birth of something new. This is the law of life and the circle in nature. At the death of anything something comes out of it. Nothing becomes lost completely. Even a seed for it to grow it must first dry and be tossed or dug underground only then will it come out as a new shoot and finally a plant.

Female Genital Mutilation is not a hopeless situation. We should not be drowned in the pool of self pity and sit at the party of pity. Pity does not do anything but make a victim remain a victim. Bravery comes from courage and courage is a strength that comes from knowing weakness but submerging it with boldness.

As a victim of Female Genital Mutilation do not accept a life of self pity. Do not accept it in your life, you are much stronger than that. You have come out of something not meant for weak people, many have died in the hands of the mutilators but you have made it. You have cried your tears, you have mourned your loss, what has passed is gone, what is ahead is requires strength.

As you go through womanhood and its challenges it reminds you that you have been violated with out your consent. A hero in the army is honored not for just fighting the battle but for fighting the battle under extreme hardship. If a soldier looses his leg in a battle but still won the combat. He goes home, he is treated and recovers and above all that he still goes back to the grounds with one leg and an aid to win another combat, he is a champion in deed.

He has the strength to accept that part of an organ that is important to him for combat is gone. However the war has not ended, with both legs or with just a leg he still has to go on. My sister what happened to you was unfair, and unjust take it as one of the things all men has to endure in the hands of wicked people.

Apostle Paul for example in his journey to the nations in 2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— 28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.

What more can we say of Jesus who went through horrendous torture to the point he was disfigured and unrecognizable completely. Isaiah 52: 13-15 Christian Standard Bible. See, my servant will be successful;
he will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
14 Just as many were appalled at you—
his appearance was so disfigured
that he did not look like a man,
and his form did not resemble a human being—
15 so he will sprinkle many nations.
Kings will shut their mouths because of him,
for they will see what had not been told them, and they will understand what they had not heard.

Take courage in what has happen to you, be brave and look up and not down on your-self. Truly in this world there is tribulation Jesus said John 16:33, but take heart He has overcome the world. Each and everyone has his or her own tribulation. Do not worry, do not put it all on your self. You too are strong and you too will overcome.

The first thing that is vital in healing to release your heart. It means, to loosen your heart and set it free by releasing all the disappointment, betrayal, heartache, anger you feel inside. They do not do any good to you, like a worn and solid sanitary tissue it is to be thrown away. If you keep wearing it, it will make you smell and you will catch an infection.

Carrying things of the past burden your heart and steal joy from you. Release your heart for no one but your self. Say to yourself you will forgive, you will let loosen your heart, you deserve to feel free. You deserve to treat yourself good. Carry only the things that will make you happy, only the memories of the good and not the bad.

Even though FGM took part of your body it did not take your femininity. You are still a full woman. You are beautiful, and worthy. There is nothing wrong with yourself. You are still God`s masterpiece. Learn to love yourself, because in this sad world no body does it for you. You deserve to be beautiful, you are not less than other women. You are unique because of it.

Treat yourself well, adorn yourself. See yourself as beautiful and carry yourself as a beautiful lady. You will appreciate yourself more and you will see that FGM did not steal your joy, because on the outside no one will see the difference between you and any other woman. You will eventually learn that you are not different from any other woman, you just have a scar. This is not to marginalize you but to help you not to feel inferior.

Here is another verse to strengthen you, 2 Corinthians 12: 6 For if I want to boast, I wouldn’t be a fool, because I would be telling the truth.† But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me, 7 especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh† was given to me, a messenger of Satan† to torment me so that I would not exalt myself. 8 Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it would leave me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power† is perfected in weakness.”†

Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. 10 So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ.† For when I am weak, then I am strong.