Lisa and I have been married for a little over 8 years now and to say it’s been difficult would be the understatement of the decade. The first two years of our marriage were wrought with health problems, fear, church problems, broken business, lost adoptions, and infidelity. We’ve looked to Jesus to learn how to love and he’s proven faithful.As a result, he’s begun using us to help other couples who have lost site of their vows, their God, and their hope. It is our hope through the love of Jesus we can help others rise where we have fallen.
We’ve been blessed with three beautiful children, Malachi, Caitlyn and Josiah, and are searching the word to understand how to “train them up in the way they should go.”
We are currently writing a book about our fall and rise now and pray God can use it as a tool to minister to others who are hurting, broken, and fallen in their own homes. It’s our prayer that out of the ashes our homes will rise, but this will happen only in the love of Jesus.
For a more complete version of this story, please visit this post. We’ve shared it more in detail there in hopes it will encourage both those who are falling and those who are rising now.
What do you do when you have done all that you know and the marriage doesn’t work out. Despite the prayers, counseling, hope and hard work. How do I walk away with nothing left but pain. The pain that was caused by his addictions. I have realized that I have grown healthier because I now realize I am worth far more and I am no longer in denial and I can clearly see the abuse. If he tells me that he is leaving to go to the store and doesn’t come back until the morning and doesn’t see how much pain this causes. Lately it has been very hard even getting out of the bed. Depression and grief is a process of losing a marriage and a spouse that was hour best friend. Questions bombard my mind, how could a spouse with a good heart allow himself to use and hurt the ones that love him dearly.
By: Kjohnson on January 17, 2009
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