Out of the Dust: One Couple’s Miraculous Story of Overcoming SECRECY, SHAME, and DIVORCE

(Chris) Early on, my little gods and “if only’s” were coming one after another like the Thanksgiving Day parade. Love, marriage, sex, career, music, sex… the obvious ones all came up short. Then came drugs and parties. And then my doubts about God crept in and took root. See, no one close to me knew anything about the drugs or doubts. As an only child, I was fine being alone, but the isolation, inauthenticity and feeling alone completely ripped me apart. My marriage was a dissatisfying sham. I felt shame about my overwhelming doubts. I felt good using drugs. So, in an act of wicked selfishness, I had to come clean and absolve myself from accountability so that I could do what I wanted.

Things fell apart for me fairly quickly after that. I finalized the divorce and got to do what I wanted with reckless abandon, but the selfishness followed me. With God and Stephanie out of the way, I was free, but freedom to sin is really just slavery. The truest idol that all of humanity shares is “me,” and there I was with my whole life laid on the altar. Like Wiley Coyote, I was off the edge of the cliff long before I realized it. And I fell. Hard.

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