One of my biggest discoveries from opening up about my past is to find just how many people in our community/society are hurting. Yesterday brought a new, young couple to the counseling room. They have a young boy and have been married three years. He has given up on their marriage and she isn’t ready. He agreed to come to counseling for a month and then we will reassess. They were married in God’s Name asking His blessings to be upon them. In the three years they have forgotten to keep Him at the helm.

It is times like this that I wish one could simply give to a young person the learning one receives through life’s lessons. It is one thing to talk to someone about God in rough times, but one seems to need to find their own experiences in order to truly believe. The saying that “God is good all the time–all the time God is good” is not easily believed in one’s crisis. So often we set for God what we want good to look like. I did this for 60 years before I began to shift into believing that God may have a better “good” for me than what I had desired.

Today I well up inside every time I stop to realize how marvelous God’s Ways truly are. I pray this young couple can find His Way back to a loving relationship that is fully committed to Him and His loving leadership for the two of them.