《Memoirs of A Healer/Clinical Social Worker: Autobiography of Bruce Whealton》Chapter 66: Crucified Despite Doing No Wrong - My Captivity
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I had been victimized and didn't even defend myself. Yet, I was the one convicted of a violent crime. I was the victim of a brutal and bloody assault where I did no wrong.
That was the end of my normal life and all the hope that I had ever had in life. I believed that my life was over, and I would only live a wretched existence with no hope of any future.
It was Edmund Burke who said at the time the US was being formed into a nation that the only thing required for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I would argue that a person who doesn't respond to the pleas of a victim is not good. That is so much eviler when it involves your own family!
To have maintained a relationship with them after this was a sign of my inability to act with love for myself or with self-compassion. By maintaining a relationship with my parents and siblings after this, I disrespected and dishonored myself.
I would NEVER forgive anyone who did such a thing to anyone else. It was evil, pure and simple. They had known the nature of my character and had admitted later that I am a good person and that they never thought I was guilty of what I was accused of doing.
It was evil, pure, and simple as far as I am concerned!
They had been doing me wrong repeatedly over and over for going on six years when this plea deal went into effect. They also didn't speak up and say "oh, you should appeal it, let's get you a lawyer." I have heard of parents who make it their mission to save their adult children who are falsely accused of crimes.
My so-called family, my now ex-family, did nothing! That sickens me and a quote I heard somewhere comes to mind, "I hate them with the burning hot passion of a thousand suns!"
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Until I found I could be indifferent toward them. I have gone "no contact" which is a strategy I heard for dealing with narcissists.
I would be hard-pressed to find anything good or redeeming about them, now.
I was struggling with this and my finances in March of 2020 when I called the Catholic Social Ministries. I needed help with rent, and they were listed as a community resource for this.
I spoke to the lady who ran the social ministries there, Mary Ellen McGuire, and she said, "Can I pray for something for you?"
I didn't really answer because I wasn't much of a believer after everything I had experienced. I had once believed. I had prayed so desperately when I was in such desperate need of comfort. From the depths of my soul, I had prayed repeatedly over and over many times per day when I was in jail for seven months. I had said, "My God, you know I am the victim and I need help. Please help me!" But I got no aid.
This was going through my mind.
I heard Mary Ellen ask again, "Is there something I could mention in prayer for you?"
I said, "You know, I was raised Catholic. I used to go to church until recently. I always lived my life according to the highest morals. I NEVER harmed anyone, ever! Yet, I had everything taken from me and every hope of happiness."
"I loved helping others and I worked as a psychotherapist. It was so amazing to be able to help others who were suffering from emotional pain. In a world that makes sense, I would be of great value. But years ago, there was something bad that happened. I was falsely accused and convicted of a violent crime. Me! I have NEVER acted even remotely aggressive in my entire lifetime. Now, they say it's too late to get justice or to clear my name."
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I continued, "You know, I studied the Bible and the book of Job. Job had it better than me. In that story, it is revealed in the end that he wasn't being punished for some wrong that he did. You could say his innocence had been revealed. He was vindicated."
"For me, there is something called a statute of limitations. I was supposed to have appealed the plea arrangement back when I was in a very dark place and all alone."
I added, "and my own family abandoned me and didn't do anything."
She then said, "well, Jesus never got justice. He was never vindicated. He died yet he did no wrong."
Wow, I could agree with that from a historical perspective. I could relate too. Jesus went around healing people.
I said, "I actually had thought about that before. Thank you for reminding me."
The imagery of the cross is about the idea of someone who has done no wrong facing a shameful crucifixion.
The friends of Jesus faced execution if they were associated with him when he was arrested. Those who abandoned me, the woman who gave birth to me, the sister who claimed to love me, faced no such threat to their well-being.
My entire future was on the line and I was thrown out into the cold streets and without a home. They didn't even give me warmth or shelter during those years.
I met someone who was assigned to be a peer support person in my recovery from mental illness last year. He kept insisting I needed to find a "higher power." I protested saying that I do not believe in such foolish ideas.
I said it would be a miracle if I got justice for a crime that happened sixteen years ago way past the statute of limitations. "If that happens, I'll believe," I said to shut him up.
He was insisting that God would or could not do anything for me now. What? Your god can reanimate a dead body, bring someone back from the dead but that same God cannot inspire and touch the hearts and minds of people. That god cannot persuade people?
That makes no sense to me. Why would you believe that the God of Easter can raise a person from the dead and all it takes for justice is to persuade others to recognize the truth and embrace justice.
When I was a believer, I heard that God is all about justice. This would be the most obvious and pertinent thing on the list of things that God would want to do.
It doesn't matter how much time has passed or other difficulties. For God, all things are possible. This is certainly less complicated than creating a universe and raising a man from the dead.
This individual who said I should believe in a higher power was part of Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. I asked for a different peer support person to be assigned to me.
Believing that things will work out in the end if we trust our higher power hardly makes sense if you simultaneously believe that some things are not possible even for your higher power.
Mary Ellen McGuire sent me a book called "Everyone Has Someone to Forgive." She understood how seemingly impossible it was for me to forgive my family. In sending this book to me she respected and recognized that a great wrong had been done on their part by their betrayal.
I have a takeaway from my present insights. We do not contemplate forgiving those people who mean nothing to us. We just don't think about them because other things are on our minds.
That is where we are as I am about to wrap up my autobiography.
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