Strength In God
I can't remember now how long after my separation this conversation occurred, but it was within the first year. A dear friend and I were talking one evening about all that was happening with me, when he stated he had no idea how I was doing it. I asked him what he meant and he said, "I would have been an alcoholic or a drug addict or I would have committed suicide by now. I don't know how you're going through all of this the way you are." At the time, I didn't know either and I did not have a good answer for him then. This past Saturday, another dear friend of mine and I were talking about what has been going on in our lives since the last time we spoke. We are both facing what seem to be insurmountable obstacles and a quantity and type of suffering that only seems to worsen. We have issues with our children, employment, betrayals, lies, isolation, struggles with the enormous weight of our own weaknesses and sins. When each of us had given onl...