I have found that I can’t move forward from the Spirit@Work® Card – Justice. I thought that it would be easy to write with this card in mind. Instead it has become something that has become quite hard to do. The question that keeps coming to mind is, “Who is justice serving in the writing of Footprints On My Soul?”
I thought the simple answer would be the little girl in me. Instead I find myself doubting my words. If the little girl receives justice, is it at the expense of the perpetrators? Do they not also deserve justice? Who am I to decide how justice will be served?
I don’t know the names of most of the abusers, so there isn’t much concern over whether or not justice is being represented for them. I doubt that anyone would even know who they were. So, from that point ensuring that justice is realized for the little girl is easy. The difficulty comes in one main person in my childhood who it will be obvious as to the identity of that person. Am I taking justice into consideration if I write about them? If I take this person out of the story, the reader will know that something big is missing from the story. Also, if I take this person out, then justice would not be given for the little girl.
Because of the struggle that I’m having with this card, I decided not to choose a new one for the last couple of days.
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