Comments on: i walked into an affair

By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:18:21 +0000

Sisterlisa – ABSOLUTELY!!! it's not fair to ask those people to hold your secret for you. i believe true healing happens only when it's ALL out, but i guess i say that only because that's my experience.

Larry – thank you for your words of love and encouragement. Brian is pretty amazing! I wish I had seen it sooner… but I'm beyond grateful for the second chance to see it now.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:48:33 +0000

Jenni,

Thank you for your openness. I can't praise Brian enough for his love for you. I also am thankful of your love for him. I totally agree with you that you can not return to the same marriage you left. It had to become new. Healthier. New in the way that God can make things new, incorporating the junk of yesterday and making a work of art.

May God bless you with the new joy of each other.

By: Sisterlisa

Sisterlisa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:09:24 +0000

For those who might question a public confession for fear of too many people knowing, hear this; If people in your community know and they don't know the couple is getting help, they live with a dirty secret that they hate knowing. They need to be released from knowing about it. It's a painful humiliating process, but seek God in knowing if that's the decision that needs to take place.

By: Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:01:08 +0000

Makeda – i'm so sorry for your pain. God's grace is available AND sufficient for you even though you can't comprehend it. none of us comprehend it… we just accept it and try to accept ourselves as we are, broken and in need of a Savior. i've added you to our prayer list and promise to pray for you.

Rachel – thank you for reading! isn't it amazing how brokenness opens our eyes to such beauty if we let it.

By: Makeda

Makeda — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:40:13 +0000

Thank you for sharing your story so openly, beautifully and honestly. I have a similar story of "walking into an affair", only I was not married and I walked into two different affairs with two different married men. God's grace is beyond my ability to even begin to comprehend but I know that I am so grateful for His grace. Thank you again for sharing your story.

By: Rachel Durban

Rachel Durban — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:34:29 +0000

I love reading about stories on how our God is working miracles! Yall's story is beautiful. I'm thankful that you are so transparent and humble about being broken. I recently have been broken, and RE-broken through the divorce of my parents and me harboring anger towards them…God's been working on me for a good year and a half now.

Thanks for being transparent! Blessings!

Rachel

By: Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:04:22 +0000

freddae' & traylor — thanks for your words and thanks for reading. grace is a WHOLE new concept to me now.

crystal — i love you buckets full. see you soon!

By: Traylor Lovvorn

Traylor Lovvorn — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:25:21 +0000

Thank you Serena and Jenni for bringing this into the light. Melody and I love hearing from others who have obviously experienced healing pain in their lives.

It changes you and gives you an entirely different perspective on grace.

Amazing grace.

Oh how sweet the sound.

Kindof like the sound of your story…it has God all over it. Thank you for your courage in sharing!

Traylor

By: Crystal Renaud

Crystal Renaud — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:48:02 +0000

obviously, i meant "redeeming" not deeming.

By: Crystal Renaud

Crystal Renaud — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:45:01 +0000

Serena,

Thank you so much for bringing this issue to light this week. It is such a prevalent issue in the Christian community— I am not married, but I have seen it going down all around me (almost all of which have been those in ministry). Jenni and Brian are really close friends of mine, and watching their journey has been inspiring. Inspiring because God is such a deeming and restoring God—when we're willing to be broken. Jenni and Brian are true examples. I am honored to call them my friends.