Thread by @JennMGreenberg

Here's the thing.

I tried really hard.

I wore high collar shirts.

I wore long jeans.

I made myself as plain, unexceptional, and as modest as I could.

My dad still sexually abused me.

I am done letting people blame their lust on me. Because nothing I do can help you.

My body is not your disease.

How God designed me doesn't make you sin.

I am not an open bar tab you can keep charging dirty thoughts to without repercussions.

God sees how you're thinking about his daughter. Act like a grown man and take responsibility for yourself.

If Twitter causes you to sin, delete your account.

If you can't look at attractive women without sinning, repent, pray, and get help.

Me wearing a one-piece to the beach won't save you. It won't stop your heart hemorrhaging sin. Only Jesus Christ can do that. Not my wardrobe.

You own your sin.

I own mine.

No more of this channeling Adam, "B-b-but the woman you gave me, she was attractive and I thought a bad thing."

I am not your Eve, and you are not my husband.

Don't put me on a pedestal as if I can live some Norman Rockwell quasi-Chistian ideal.

By this tweet some will be imagining me as a screeching harpy. I am not even upset. I'm just tired. I've been pressured again and again to dress a certain way to save men's souls. I'm here to tell you, it doesn't work. You don't need Jennifer to wear a burka. You need Jesus.

And maybe I'm reacting. Maybe overcoming years of fear has made me brazen. Maybe I'm damaged. But I don't think so. I'm honestly just done feeling other people's shame.

My husband is proud of how I look, and for the first time in my life, I am too. No one can take that from me.

Thank you for the amazing love and support! My book, Not Forsaken, releases August 20, and chronicles the recovery process following 21 years of abuse at the hands of my church-going father. It's a hope-filled read for survivors and all who care for them.

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