Hi Rowland,

If you really think it would help to encourage others, by all means you may share my e-mail and my name. Sometimes I believe we go through such times to understand and have empathy and compassion for others. Sharing experiences is another part of it.

I appreciate your prayers. Thank you.

God Be With You,

Donna

>Hi Donna

>

>Thanks for your wonderful humility and honesty

>

>Where do you live?

>

>Would you mind if I put your excellent email on our website for the

>encouragement of others? With or without your name?

>

>You’re in my prayers!

>

>Shalom! Rowland Croucher

>

>

>Dear Rowland,

>

>I did not realize, until I read the post of divorce today, that you were a

>divoce counselor I can relate to the woman who wrote. The difference is

that >I gave all of my years to the Lord, my husband and nine children only to

>find at age 62, that my husband chose to take up a relationship with a

>younger woman and had been in it for quite awhile.

>

>I took it to the Lord and He impressed me to forgive and take all the blame

>unto myself, which I did. I told my husband that I forgave Him and would

>forget all, even though he did not ask it of me, and told him also that I

>had probably sinned as much as he because when we break even one of the

>commandments we have broken all. No sin is worse than anyother. I was

>rejoicing within myself because I had truly forgiven Him. He was as cold as

>ice and placed all his hopes on another woman who was married also. He was

>not even open to trying to save all our years of marriage. He dismissed

what >it would do to our children saying, “they are all adults and can take it.”

>

>All the hopes and dreams of til death do us part and about retirement years

>went right down the tube and now I find that I am alone, with no particular

>job skills that would grant me a position whereby I could receive benefits

>and at an age where I might be hindered in a few years from being able to

>work at all.

>

>My life is truly, my Lord and I. I am very thankful that He has kept me in

>good health, and that I appear much younger than I really am. Believe me,

>that helps alot in this world. I am so very thankful that I have the Lord.

>How others make it without Him I cannot even begin to fathom.

>

>I wish I had known about you when this first came upon me, I could have

used >a christian counselor big time. I am so very thankful that there are ones

>such as you that are available to those who go through this because it is a

>wrenching apart of every part of ones being and then, with the Lord,

putting >all back together and in faith going on with our lives, trusting in Him.

>Satan sought to attack me on my weakest point, my family. Well, with the

>Lord, it was no contest. It was not easy by far, but I made it. I can

relate >to Job better than ever before. Our God is always with us and He never lets

>us down.

>

>Thank you for answering to His call to help those with these kinds of hurts

>and needs. It is very traumatic.

>

>Sincerely and in Christian Love,

>

>Donna

>

>”We cannot control the strength, or the direction of the wind, but we can

>adjust our sails to meet the challenges in our life.”