one wife’s journey through her husband’s sexual addiction to wholeness and healing
We are settling in to our new location and decorating our apartment. It’s been a solid 15 yrs since I’ve lived in an apartment - there are definitely things I like (not having to do the maintenance ourselves) and things I’m not so crazy about (hearing the dog upstairs run around like a maniac at [...]
We were at an event last night and I stepped in it. I don’t mean I goofed up for the room to see, but I made a mistake. I engaged someone in conversation and went willingly in to the field, only to stagger back, wounded & hurt.
Ordinarily, I have a thick skin and [...]
So last year around this time, I was struggling. Struggling to come to a peaceful place with my cousin’s unexpected and untimely passing, struggling to make sense of our therapy sessions and what we were getting from them, and struggling to keep my head above water when I was faced with the truth of my [...]
Sting wrote the song “If You Love Someone (Set Them Free)” in 1985 in response to the popularity of the previous Police hit “Every Breath You Take,” which was not a love story as the public took it, but the story of a stalker watching and obsessing over his prey. He was chagrined at how [...]
So apparently, the Haggards have been in the media lately - they did a documentary with a pay-per-view cable company, were on “Oprah,” and have been written up in various magazines, newspapers, and the rest. I’m relatively unplugged from the mainstream media, but one thing that I do read with semi-regularity is Charisma magazine, [...]
Of all the things on this journey that I didn’t expect, it has been the depth of sheer anger and rage I have at a man who has been dead nearly 20 years. I am a natural redhead and have borne jokes through the years about my supposed anger. The truth is that I’m really [...]
My husband and I had our first Theophostic meeting last week and I’ve pondered how to describe it and write about it for a full week now. I’m really glad we went and we’ll be going back next week. God completely showed up and met us there - and let’s face it: He didn’t have [...]
To grant [consolation and joy] to those who mourn in Zion–to give them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing spirit–that they may be called oaks of righteousness [lofty, strong, and magnificent, [...]
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Divorce happens. It’s a sad fact of life that I wish wasn’t. But it’s been going on for thousands of years and is in no way a “new thing” or an American condition. Jesus recognized that Moses [...]
Once again I find myself pondering deep questions and concepts and this seems to be a good place to hash some of this out. So bear with me, if you will.
In a discussion pertaining to pornography use and the shamefulness we see in those who partake and who are addicted, someone suggested that it’s the [...]
