A Fight Bigger than a Freakin’ Bag of Chips
A bag of chips...that’s your biggest fight? I’m sitting in a marriage Sunday school class, the leader shares how the biggest fight him and his wife ever had was over deciding what bag of potato chips they should buy, the couples laughed, but for me I sat still in my pain believing there was absolutely no hope for me or my marriage. That was one of many illusions that led me to decades of wearing a mask, believing that I had to hide the pain, pretend my struggle was a freakin’ bag of chips instead of the emotional abuse, porn, and adultery that was truly invading my marriage...living oppressed in fear, guilt, and shame. I honestly believed if I prayed enough, served enough, attended church enough that it all would magically be ok and a bag of chips would be my new normal. But here’s the thing...had the bag of chips became my new normal I don’t believe I would have experienced God in the captivity that I have. It was only in the brokenness, the pain, the heartache, the mess and chaos tha...