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Originally Posted by Margies3
Thanks, Barb. I appreciate these words. I agree. God IS a God of wholeness and not brokenness. That's why things like a divorce are so painful. But one thing Terri has expressed to me is that she is learning thru this that whatever else happens God is faithful.
I appreciate your prayers for my friend (and for me as I minister to her). I'm convinced that God is not finished working with this situation. When her husband packed his things to leave, he took his clothes and his BIBLE. He travels for work all the time, being gone sometimes for weeks at a time, and has never taken his Bible with him when he's packed up to go before. So I think that might be an encouraging sign. If Jim took his Bible and will read it, God will guide him. Pray that God speaks to Jim's heart.
I have to honor my friend who is in the midst of all of this. She said to me yesterday that the one thing she has made up her mind to is that no matter what else happens, whether Jim leaves or stays, whether her best friend every speaks to her again or not, - her goal is that at the end of the day, she will be able to stand before God and hear Him say, "I am pleased with how you handled things today."
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That is all we can really seek to have...at the end of the day, having God
pleased with us.
I want to please Him in every area...not just with how I handle my life's issues, but how I handle yours. That is an interesting thought, eh?!
Margie, please allow me to share one more thing here...there is another article in this issue of PH written by Bro. Tim Milligan from Menphis. He writes...
"Society's fatalistic minset of "three strikes and your out" is an opportunity for the Church to remind the disappointed that their failures are not final. Society's philosophy is to dispose while the philosophy of the Church is to recycle."
I love this!!
I work with two couples whose marriages are over because one partner blew it. They have left no room for recycling, rekindling, restoring...the mind-set is disposal of the marriage.
Let us pray for God to bless the hearts of Jim and Terri to seek God's way and not their own...