In all my years of following Jesus, I have to admit that I have not felt the comfort of God in my life and hard circumstances more than I have felt the comfort of God. What do we do with that?
Continue readingQuestion: “Doesn’t Jesus tell us to turn the other cheek? And to forgive seventy times seven times? And doesn’t the love chapter in I Corinthians 13 tell us that love keeps no record of wrongs and it suffers long and it never gives up? So, doesn’t the Bible basically tell us that we must take abuse in a marriage and stay under it?” (Hint: NO)
Continue readingI am so deeply sorry. I am so sorry that your marriage is ending. I am so sorry that your husband mistreated you. This is awful. This is the worst. This completely sucks. You are allowed to feel every single bad feeling you are feeling. There is no shame. In fact, denying or stuffing what you’re really feeling will only serve to cause you physical harm and will come out in other ways at other people at inappropriate times. You are going to be okay. You don’t think you will be but you will be.
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