I am on the same journey you are. No matter how dark some days get, you are never alone with God in your life. I love the way He puts angels in my life to lift me up in spirit, mind and body. I can only pray He shows me a way forward as I struggle with each decision I am forced to make. I did seek medical advise to help with my depression. It helped me tremendously and I met some great people through our group therapy sessions.

Know you are enough! I struggled for 37 years to hold my marriage together. I realizzed I was the only person trying. Without two people working together, a marriage is doomed to fail. Don’t carry his shame. I felt it was my fault that he cheated. It wasn’t. But I had to work through that in my own time until I could hold my head up and look myself in the eye in the mirror.

I will continue to keep you in my thoughts and prayers. May God place the Angels you need most in your life at His perfect time.

“We are not here to see through one another,
but to see one another throiugh.”

Jody,

How these words fill my heart. Thank you for writing them (and yes, there is always room for mixed metaphors! 🙂 ) I am going to be returning to read this again and again, I have no doubt. Thank you for thinking of me and for sharing this… and for the book in the first place! It’s been such a comfort and one that I’ve already bought a copy of.

I’ve been reading every page of yours with care — slowly and surely as each section is saturated with truth, that giving it time to sink it seems to be a must. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do!

Alena,

Indeed He hasn’t. I’m so glad that we can remember this together!

Shelli,

It’s always a joy t have you visit and it means all the more to know that the post was a timely one for you. Such beautiful words of yours and I am in this place time and time again myself so it’s a strange comfort in knowing we’re not alone. Your courage brings me courage. Thank you for that.

“Is there no music in the heart of sorrow that the Lord of all has chosen for His own? Are you not nearer to the Master, have you not grown in faith, in patience, in prayerfulness, in thankful hope, since the time the storm winds first sighed across your life? …Do not tremble because of the winds of the future; your Lord will be living and loving tomorrow, even as He lives and loves today and no storm waits in your path but shall leave behind another record that your Heavenly Father is stronger than the tempest, nearer than the grief.

We are traveling home to that beauteous shore where the chill winds never sweep, the hurricane makes no moan; yet, amid the rest of the painless Homeland, shall we not love the Lord a thousandfold more for every storm of earth in which He drew near us, saying, ‘Fear not,’ and held us by the hand, and tenderly bore us through the hour that seemed the darkest?

Set your thoughts, not on the storm, but on the Love that rules the storm.” – from “In Rainbow Weather” by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

This, my friend, is what I see you seeking to do, day after day after day. Surely, He, who comforts and guides you, is glorified!

Isn’t it wonderful, Jolina! I’m so thankful that it fall into my lap this way. It’s been a huge inspiration for making sense of this life. Thinking of you and your dear husband and sending many prayers your way for health and peace during this time.