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Spirituality Healed the Bitterness I Felt in Divorce
Along with some very good counseling
I remember hearing the story of a young girl in a coma. She gradually awoke to hear her loved ones speaking to her. But she was trapped within herself. She could not talk or communicate, she could only watch the world moving around her.
All of them were unaware, she was actually present.
The interviewer asked her how did she survive alone? How scared and how helpless she must have felt. I paraphrase the remarkable response of an incredibly young spiritual giant who to my memory was only in her teens.
“I was not alone,” said the girl. “God could hear me, I talked to him.”
Before my divorce, I would crawl into bed feeling utterly abandoned. The loneliness was pushed deeper within by fear, anxiety, sadness, and something worse than all of them.
A word that renders the beautiful…ugly.
Bitterness.
Why was my marriage failing? Why was I repeating history? Why did my children have to suffer their home being torn apart?
It didn’t matter that I was choosing divorce, I still felt bitter. I had no choice. My husband wouldn’t leave me and he wouldn’t work on our marriage. Instead, he kept telling me…
