I developed a devotion to Servant of God Dorothy Day, whose
cause for canonization, while reading her autobiography The Long
Loneliness. Learning about her spiritual journey, particularly how
she came to accept God's mercy after confessing her abortion, led
me to feature her in a chapter of my upcoming book for adult
victims of childhood sexual abuse, My Peace I Give You: Healing
Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints. I discuss how, in her
initial reluctance to believe that God had truly forgiven her, she
experienced feelings analogous to those of victims whose childhood
abuse causes them to doubt the depth of the Father's love for
them.
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