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    Hi my name is Jaz and i got the opportunity to visit a girls detention center today. I met a young girl who was 16 and 6 months pregnant there. I had the chance to pull her to the side and talk with her. She shared with me her story and i want to share it with you. Shaneka told me she grew up in a poor home with her father and brother. Her mother moved to the U.S when she was little. I asked her how was it growing up in her home. She shared with me that she was abused by both her brother and father ever since she could remember. She came to the clinic 4 months ago and was still being abused until the day she was brought to the center. Her father comitted  suicide to avoid going to jail and her brother went to prison for abusing her. Her brother is the father of her uborn child. I told her she must be happy to be free from her home situation but surprisingly she told me she still loves her brother and wanted to see and be with him. She said she would rather be with him than at the center. My heart melted and i couldnt understand this. Later i learned this was normal. I could feel how hardened and numb Shanekas heart was to sharing this. I thought she would be emotionl and crying, as i was when she was sharing her story but she just shrugged her shoulders and said “Whatever”. I hugged, loved, poured into and prayed for her…and hugged, loved, poured into and prayed for her some more. I told her that she is beautifully, fearfully and wonderfully made. When we were preparing to leave, one of our youth leaders prayed over all the girls and extended an invitation for any of them to come up who were in any hurt or pain to be healed in Jesus name. For anyone who believed that Jesus loved them and if they were not saved to give thier lives to Christ. Shaneka went forward, shed tears and came to me asking me to come back and thanked me. I call this story “The Beautiful Struggle” because even though Shanekas experience was a struggle, she is still a beautiful child of god! Shaneka will overcome her hurts and pain through a God who is bigger than satans schemes to discourage and hold her down. Jesus will heal and hold this beautiful girl in His arms just as He did me in my own beautiful struggle. I managed to get her to smile with me and capture a heart that only Jesus could soften. Glory be to the Almighty. I’m crying because God is real and Shanekas soul is saved!