United States of America
God has brought me through a storm. He has shown me His glory in so many ways. After 20 years of marriage, two beautiful boys, and what felt like it was a great life, I was faced with the infidelity of my husband.
My life was turned upside down. The carpet was pulled out from under me. There was no longer any sense or direction or purpose. At times I thought it didn’t even matter if I lived or died. I was hopeless. Lost.
I was blessed to be attending a church at that time where many were ready and willing to come alongside me and walk with me through the storm. They spoke about how God was working in my life and how He was going to get me through this. They told me my life would be glorious again. They were so sure of this that I had to believe them!
I came to understand they had the joy of the Lord. Gradually, as I prayed, and cried out to the Lord, I started to see and experience that Joy. Small things at first, flowers started to be beautiful again.
I was seeking Him and was showing me His goodness. He constantly put people in my path that uplifted me and helped move forward and heal.
Slowly, what was in the dark came into the light. The log was removed from my eye, and I felt transformed.
A part of my journey and healing occurred in my Divorce Care community. Now, and probably as long as I’m alive on this earth, I am able to pay forward with facilitating Divorce Care in my current church. This allows me to come alongside others in their storms, witness to others about God‘s goodness, cry with them, and give them hope that they too will have a better life ahead. God is working.
Eva Sherman
United States of America
Finding Peace Within Myself
There was a moment in my life when I was at my lowest. Life, my life was just turned upside down. I was going through a terrible divorce, had two kids, moved to a new city, and money was tight. I didn’t know where to turn some days, left, right, up, or down, yet when I sat down, I knew I had two precious souls counting on me for food, shelter, strength, and most importantly, love. I was hurt, disappointed, and lost.
When I felt hope was not near or even possible, I turned to my foundation in God. I found a church I liked. I started attending, praying, fasting, and taking the kids. It wasn’t long before I felt a burden lift, and doors opened. I became a better person, mother, daughter, and friend. I regained my strength and my confidence. I found myself again. God made it possible.
United States of America
October 31, 2019, I tripped and fell and broke my wrist at work. After having immersed myself in worship to the song, “The Goodness of God” that morning, my accident woke me up to how good God had/has been to me over the course of my life. But most especially, to how GOOD HE HAD BEEN in the 10 years before my accident. You see, summer of 2009, I left my husband, my four children, and my home. It was a marriage of about 35 years – a VERY difficult marriage, an emotionally exhausting marriage. Never able to live up to his expectations. However, it wasn’t just leaving him. It was leaving my four children behind, abandoning them. What nearly killed me for it was my children, who kept me going, and then, without them, I felt, “what was the use in living?”
Mother’s Day 2011 my sister came and rescued me from going back and brought me back home, where I grew up. Again, after a year and a half, I left and abandoned my children, yet once again. But God had not abandoned me. He brought me back and placed me in a job that I never in my life imagined I would have. He placed me at Gulfstream as an upholstery tech, where He knew that I could not easily escape back to Jacksonville. This was a job where the Lord could take care of me and have coworkers who would support me, and the healing process began. Eventually, He brought me to Compassion Christian Church, where I was accepted and loved right where I was. Over the next few years, I was able to travel back and forth to Jacksonville to restore relationships with my children.
Only God can mend what we break.
A.S.
