“Love never gives up, never loses faith,
is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
1 Corinthians 13:7
They were young and eager to start a family and a business. Everything seemed perfect for this couple. Forty years in the making produced beautiful adventures of hope and joy. Those who were struggling in their relationship were encouraged by them.
All his dreams were realized, a beautiful family and a flourish business. The respect and admiration that both of them felt for each other were undeniable. But, one day the incomprehensible happened. All that respect and love he felt for her, as if by magic, were changed into hatred and disdain. The way that he poured out his scorn for her, deleted any trace of good memories cultivated in 40 years.
The days after the divorce:
Driving alone was a martyrdom, she was so used to being with him. Now she felt that the eyes of all the drivers were on her. She wondered if they were thinking, “Why will she drive alone in that car?” It was very shameful for her.
A truck pulling a boat, a truck with a trailer, a couple in a car, etc. all those things reminded her of him, it was like a thorn stuck in her heart. Many painful years, no idea what happened.
Love never ends:
The Holy Scriptures reveals that love never ends. Sadly, divorce has come to be the road more traveled by many. Nevertheless, she has understood the great truth about love. It does not end, it moves to another person.
The love of God in the heart of an individual is like a glue to unite hearts. Knowing and having a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ is the key to overcoming all tragedies, no matter how cruel it may be.
After years of solitude with the Lord in His Word and completing the grieving process, she is enjoying a life that she never thought possible. She is full of joy and love. She has known and experienced the love she never dreamed of. Her experience with the Lord Jesus, has transformed her into a confident woman without lack of anything, because she knows that He is all that she needs.
It’s amazing how things have turned around. Those things that were like a thorn stuck in her heart, now has no effect whatsoever in her. No matter how hard she tries to remember a good memory, it does not emerge. Her soul is so healed that sadness has no place in her. The love she had for him has been allocated in a different direction. She is so full of joy with a fresh new love for life, that she does not even mind to have walked that shameful road.
No pain is lost, everything has a purpose in God. No affliction is meaningless, it’s producing something, is working for you an eternal weight of glory. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, affirms this great truth.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary trouble are achieving for us an eternal glory that are far out weights them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
I affirm this is true! How do I know it? Because this is my story.