Comments on: When A Heart Breaks

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:21:28 +0000

In reply to Lisa. Thank you so much Lisa. Your blog is a place of wonderful encouragement! I am always happy to share my story if it could be helpful to anyone. I will email you. Thank you for asking, and God bless your week... xo

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:13:31 +0000

This is just beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. My parents, too, divorced when I was 9. I’m 40 now, and I still have to visit three homes (my mom’s, my dad’s and my in-laws). The effects just don’t go away. Love your blog. BTW, would you be interested in sharing your story about how God changed your life and what you learned? I have a blog called deepandwonderfulthoughts.wordpress.com would you be interested in sharing?

Lisa

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:15:24 +0000

In reply to Susan A. Reed. Thank you for your encouragement Susan...you are a dear. Xxoo

By: Susan A. Reed

Susan A. Reed — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:58:59 +0000

This was so touching Julie, I really do not know what to say except the best is yet to come!

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:18:26 +0000

In reply to Ginny the Yalker…”One Who Can Yarn Talk”.

Ginny, I wish everyone would visit my blog to read these comments of yours. It touched me very deeply. Thank you for visiting here, and for sharing your story. The way you have been able to love and forgive is amazing to me – full of the way God does things. LY.

By: Ginny the Yalker..."One Who Can Yarn Talk"

Ginny the Yalker..."One Who Can Yarn Talk" — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:27:49 +0000

Jewel, my heart felt hollow after I read this because of how many times my parents pounded on the door of divorce. My mom hung in there, bless her heart, and a few years back, the reality of her strength and sacrifice hit me. How our family dynamics could have been so horribly different had she not chosen to stay married to an adulterer, an alcoholic and an overall jerk. I believe her staying gave our family a chance to see my dad come around and for all of us to heal and actually grow to love him. He is 91 now so we have few years left to make up for the painful ones, but nonetheless, we have experienced forgiveness and love. I don’t think my mom’s heart has healed completely, but I feel she knew staying was the right thing to do. I also believe when I faced that same decision with my marriage, it gave me the strength to stay.
These two have had 59 years of rough waters, but dang it, they are still afloat! And for that, I, as their adult child, am grateful!

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:10:50 +0000

In reply to Lorna. I know you understand, Lorna. Thank you for reading, my friend.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:42:25 +0000

Oh, I miss my mom. Thank you, Lord, for that highway, that Way of Holiness which leads to Your presence and everlasting joy and reunion. Thank you, Julie, for your healing words.

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:05:29 +0000

In reply to Ember. Thank you, Ember. Perhaps your name should be Balmer. Ember who brings the balm....

By: Ember

Ember — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:34:22 +0000

When my marriage ended it blew a devastating hole in my life and in my children’s lives. The main repair work took a decade. Some things couldn’t be fixed. I don’t suppose I will ever be that same person I would have been if it hadn’t happened, and that goes for my children too – and, I think for my ex-husband as well.
My present marriage is with a man who has been divorced. It took me a long time to get over the acrimony that came my way after that, too.
But I believe in people and life and God, and I believe in happiness.
I believe in happiness that is there in even tiny things, if we will reach out and take it. The winter my first marriage ended, I concentrated sometimes on watching the steam from my breakfast porridge rising through a sunbeam, and I listened to Mozart and bought myself a fibre-optic Christmas tree and used to lie in the dark watching the pretty little lights change. And I watched cheery cooking programmes on telly. Not big spiritual stuff, but it helped.
There is so much I could say about this. No relationship is forever. Everything changes. But the whole of life is held in the hands of God, and we have therefore good grounds for trust and hope and love. Nothing is lost, nothing will be dropped. There is reason for faith, and peace.