Sharing My Jennarocity

The outpouring of love and encouragement I've received today has been overwhelming. Thank you all for your kind words! I wanted to share a little more of my journey here today, for those interested. I'm never going to publicly talk about the details of what happened, because I know that what happens on the internet stays on the internet, and there are things that my kids just don't need to see. So, I write everything, picturing them reading my posts as adults and how they would feel about what I said. It's been incredibly important to me, during this journey, that I understood who the true enemy is, and that's Satan. And as much as Satan wanted my marriage, he also wanted me to crumble into a ball, be unproductive, cry everyday, be distraught, doubt my faith, be bitter and never trust again. Anyone who knows even a small inkling of who I am knows that is not who I am, nor who I will ever be. And I was never going to give that horrible being the satisfaction...

November 11 - The day our lives changed forever.  It was the day my husband decided he was not willing to continue in this marriage with me.  I will never forget that day as long as I live. It was the day my future was taken from me, the day I found out my husband wasn't who I thought he was and the day I had to start the inevitable journey that God was going to allow my marriage to fail.  As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, and a confirmed believer in the covenant of marriage, I don't know that I can accurately describe the feeling of being left by a husband whom you thought felt the same way you did. Over our 9 years together, divorce was never an option, as far as I knew. We talked about marriage extensively, even teaching marriage Bible studies at our church. I watched as my husband counselled other husbands who were pondering divorce, and told them it wasn't worth it - stick it out, find out what's wrong and fix it, he would tell them. In my mind, ...

Today is the day we celebrate our Lord Jesus Christ - that he died on the cross for our sins, then arose from death three days later to ascend into heaven next to God's side.  Jesus changed everything. When he came down to Earth, and took on the form of man, he became the most important man to have ever lived. His ministry changed religion forever, as God had intended. His presence on this earth changed time, as our history is marked before he was born, and after he ascended. But most importantly - it changed our entire relationship to God and showed us what God would do to reconcile us with Him. That even though we are his creation and made beautifully in his image, we are filled with sin that separates us from God. Separation from God means spending an eternity without his presence. It means death, forever. But God so loved the world that He sent His one and only son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  Sin is an ugly thing. S...