I don't post on this case much any longer because Jayme is a private citizen and she didn't ask for ANY attention, either positive or sensational. She deserves enormous respect and all our hopes and prayers, though.
I want to say this because it's what's in my heart for her. My hopes for her, as I would have for my own daughter, if I'd been blessed to have my daughter living.
Regarding Elizabeth Smart taking the time, the effort, and the emotional effort to come to Barron to talk to the concerned residents there. This is the work of an angel on earth. She endured so much, and she has so much to say to the public which is good, positive, uplifting and healing.
She is in a unique position to offer comfort and deep relief to Barron. I am praying for her and for the people she will meet and talk to, that they will be comforted and receive blessings from her countenance, which is almost glowing with love and a deep faith in God, and from her extremely eloquent, yet down to earth soft way of speaking of the truth in having hope, and offering hope and comfort to each other and to Jayme in unique ways.
I've heard Elizabeth speak as well as reading her book, and she does move people very deeply because she speaks with great intelligence and great understanding of how to help others. She truly gives of herself to other survivors, and she's helped me, personally, to find peace in the darkness of the night when the horrible fear and panic I experienced comes calling once again. Mostly, she reminds me to stay close to God and to pray, because with her deep faith that she freely shares, I know I'm never truly alone, and that the abductor was banished years ago.
I hope very much that Jayme and Elizabeth Smart will be able to relax with one another and be honest and talk about the things they've been through as female to female.
The facts that they were almost the same ages when they were abducted and that both had long periods of captivity before they escaped puts them in a very good bonding situation.
Elizabeth is very soft spoken and sweet, much like I imagine Jayme is. This is an incredibly positive chance for two survivors to bond and help one another, because the healing from a violent abduction and long periods of assault NEVER ends. Every survivor heals over and over for the rest of her life. It's like how we shed skin.. It's a renewed process, but from a different point of progress. Every time Elizabeth, I, or any other survivor helps another survivor, we also help ourselves heal more. It's a unique win- win situation.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am praying for the two to have a very good rapport and for Elizabeth to encourage Jayme in many ways, one of which is especially important to Elizabeth, the spiritual guidance and healing from a church, its members and leaders. This is an especially important need now that Jayme is without her parents, especially her mother.
I hope Jayme will come away from her time with Elizabeth with the absolute knowledge of a young teen that she is still as pure as the day she was formed, and that she can go to church, be with her peers there and their mothers who care for her personally, can bond more closely to her special aunts, can talk with God every minute of every day and night through the power of prayer, and know that He's always with her in every step she takes.
I hope she will know what I came to know without a doubt after almost dying in a violent abduction: When she cannot walk through the pain at some points, Jesus will carry His child for a while.
