Well, we are back home to the kid’s place in OK City. What a wonderful weekend celebrating our daughter’s completion of Masters of Divinity.

On a very different note, there is something else that has surfaced during the past few days which my mind and emotions are whirling around and I’m trying to find where Jesus is in the midst of it. My first wife’s second husband is here for this celebration. He and I have been friendly for many years. My ex divorced him about 10 years ago. For whatever reason he began to open up to me about his marriage and the struggles they had which mirrored my own. The two kids were brought into the picture also by him. He himself is a retired teacher with a Masters in counseling. Along with this, my ex and I talked a good deal about her now attending a Celebrate Recovery where she now lives in Nashville. This conversation went deeply into her past as she is at the point in a step study of writing her inventory.

Having these conversations has triggered an immense amount of past issues I’ve primarily left alone. In all of my counseling I needed to address issues before all of this time. I actually saw my divorce as something I deserved for I allowed my first wife to marry me with her not knowing “the beast” I thought I must be. Today as I journaled about all of this and asked Jesus what He wanted me to know, He simply told me He is the Great Healer and now I can find healing in this arena. I can also see all of this time as the man He created me to be rather than the man who was the victim I was at that time so long ago. I’m not done with all of this, but I’m now ready to do this. To God be the Glory!