Thought For Today: Thankful For Divorce
After I received my divorce, I was in various states of confusion. As a minister, I thought God had taken his hands off of me and that I somehow misread everything. As a wife, I thought I'd failed. As a woman, I questioned what could I have done differently? I lost inspiration. I broke connections. I trusted no one (not even myself). I had a difficult time with the transition from marriage to singleness. I needed God and, at the same time, I didn't want to need God because I thought God no longer heard me. Now that the dust has settled, and I have been divorced for the better part of a year, I'm finding out the allegorical text, Footprints in the sand (Mary Stevenson, 1936) has entirely new meaning. It's the first day I received new inspiration, like the past, when I first received the call to ministry. Except, I'm different, I process things through an entirely different lens. I'm starting over, not from the beginning, more like from a different fou