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Table of Contents
Chapter
1----- “CRISIS… The Most Painful Period in Our Marriage”
Chapter 2 ----
“The Beginning”
Chapter 3 ---
“Our Courtship”
Chapter 4
---- “Marriage”
Chapter 5 ----
“Trouble Begins”
Chapter 6----
“The Holidays and Our First Year”
Chapter 7 ----“Career
Changes and Other Struggles”.
Chapter 8 ----
“Children”
Chapter 9----
“Our New Found Freedoms within Marriage"
Chapter 10
---- “Our Lives Change”
Chapter 11----
“The Truth Comes Out”
Chapter 12----
“The Fall Out and Recovery”
Chapter 13----
“Our Wedding and Honeymoon”
Introduction
I’m
just an ordinary man who has been blessed with an extra ordinary
love in life. I’m not rich by any of the world’s standards but
I’m the richest man alive in many other ways. This is a true
love story of a man meeting a woman, finding love, having a
whirlwind romance, marriage and so much more. It’s not the
perfect love story without any heartache but instead a real life
honest love story that rises to sheer joy and happiness and at
times plummets to sharp pain and disappointment.
God has
so wonderfully redeemed the lost years. As we look back, we
stand in awe of God’s wonderful plan of redemption. We also walked through many other trials that God
delivered us from that only made our marriage stronger. In fact
one reader wrote:
“Anybody
who didn’t know you would think, OMG… This guy and his wife have
been through a lot… Your story reminds me of a modern day Job.”
I
attempt to tell our story without being preachy but in an
entertaining way so that even non-Christians can enjoy the book
while discovering how much God really does make a difference in
a marriage was well as in each of our lives. Without giving too
much of the story away I believe that whatever trial you may be
facing might very well be something we too have at some point
experienced in our lives and marriage.
At
times I share our story using explicit language and intimate
details. Our prayer is that by being so open and honest and by
including such details that the reader might possibility see the
true nature of a loving marriage and how it can stray so far
from God’s will even when both the husband and wife are trying
to live Christian lives. Sometimes we try to make our will God’s
will and in some areas of our lives, at times, we did just that.
You will see how God saved us even from ourselves and delivered
us from these past sins and even used them in the end to bring
us even closer together in our marriage.
Sometimes, like King David, I have screamed out to God begging
Him to answer my prayer; then I’m reminded that 1 Thessalonians
5:18 says:
“In every thing
give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you.”
So in the good times and
even in the bad times
we are told to “give
thanks”. This is one of the hardest things for any of us to do
but from this book I hope you see that is exactly what I am
doing. I give thanks to God for making me, my wife, and my
marriage as strong as they are today because we have come
through these trials victoriously. Yet during any one of these
past trials I admit it was hard and even sometimes impossible to
give thanks.
I once
heard that we can only control 10% of what happens in our lives.
The other 90% we have no control over. The one thing we do
control is our attitude. If we face life with a positive
attitude even that 90% we can’t control won’t be so bad. But I
have great news for you, I know who controls all 100% of our
lives and in
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV God
promises:
“For I know the
plans I have for you,” declares the
Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
give you hope and a future.”
What
a great promise that
is and one that we count on even when facing the trials of life.
Through
God’s grace and mercy the truly wonderful happy times in our
marriage far out weighed the bad. It’s these happy times we
remember the best. God carried us through all of the hard times
and always reminds us of Proverbs 3: 5-6.
Proverbs 3: 5-6 (KJV)
5Trust in
the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.
6In all
thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
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