About us: Karen
There are some days in our lives that are regarded very joyfully, Our wedding day, our children's births, the day we accepted Christ into our life, etc. Then there are other days that are etched in our minds as sheer heartbreak... my story has to do with the latter...
October 27th, 2007 is a day that started out like any other. It was a Saturday and my husband, Dave, was out doing errands for one of the "seems like never ending" projects we always have going on at our house and I was at home into my housework... But with the flip of a cell phone and an old text message to my husband from another woman, my days, nights, hours and minutes would be turned horribly upside down.
I waited for an hour before Dave came home. My first reaction after seeing the e-mail was one of shock, followed by confusion, uncertainty, denial, fear and by the time Dave got home; anger! I immediately confronted him, he tried to deny it, I persisted and then he told me, my worst fear, what I already knew... He had defiled our marriage!
I felt betrayed, unloved, foolish, scared; I felt the one person in the world, the one whom I was to love and trust, had utterly let me down.
I didn't know... But God did, that the most awful time in my life would turn out to be an amazingly concealed blessing.
Were there many days of crying out to God? Yes! Many surreal and horrible days of feeling resentment, betrayal and anger? Yes! But, EVERYDAY, bringing it to my Father and feeling His strength, His love, His comfort and telling me "You can trust Me, the flesh of this world will fail you, but I never will." began to give me a sereneness, a tranquility; I began to become supernaturally at peace.
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7
Through many brutally honest conversations, biblical counseling with our Pastor, pouring our hearts out to each other and God in prayer, relying only on Him and putting the Lord first in our lives, knowing that nothing can be accomplished on our own, but only through the Mercy and Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, are we able to be so wonderfully blessed in our marriage!
Dave and I are what the world would call a "success" story. But I like to call it, and believe it is, a "Godcess" story. We are what can happen to any couple who puts the Lord first and gives all the Glory to Him!
Right beside most men who are in a sexual sin is a wife, fiancé or girlfriend feeling the very same emotions that I have had. I want to help you. We can walk through this together with the Lord leading the way.
God is in the business of miracles... Put Him to the test. He IS bigger than any tragedy. He CAN work miracles in any marriage. He did in mine.