Christian Reflection and Prayer

Reflection:

One of the most difficult times in my
life is when I went through a divorce.
This was never ever suppose to happen
to me.  This only happened to other
people, people who did not have
"Christian" values.  I was brought up
better.  Divorce was morally wrong
and contrary to the teachings of
Jesus Christ. People like me, who had
my kind of background, just never
got divorced.  It was not ever spoken
of in my family. 
But here I was facing the most
difficult and heart wrenching period
of my life.  My wife was asking me
for a divorce.  In one brief moment.
on my 5th anniversary. the person
that I loved was telling me that she no
longer loved me and wanted to end
our relationship. I felt angry, hurt and
abandoned by my wife and my God.
As I speak of it now, I feel the pain in
my heart.  My eyes well up with tears
as I remember the hurt I felt and the
loneliness that I was about to experience
was overwhelming. I felt that this pain and
emptiness would never go away. That
my life was over and there was no longer
any reason to keep going. 
I found myself begging my wife to stay
with me and promising I would do anything
to keep her in my life. But this was not
enough and she left me.
I know what your thinking, "Here comes
the sermon, here comes the life changing
experience that brought meaning back
into my life".  Well that's not what happened.
IT WAS A LONG HEALING PROCESS NOT
AND OVERNIGHT REVELATION. It was a
process of discovery that yes indeed
eventually changed my life.  The discovery
in my life was this, that even though my wife left
me, MY GOD DID NOT. 
I know, to some, this sounds like some kind
of platitude that never happens.  Many people
say, without meaning, that God is there for you.
But I'm telling you and asking you to believe me
when I say, "GOD NEVER ABANDONED ME".
And I know, from personal experience that HE
WILL NEVER ABANDONED YOU!

GOD LOVES YOU AND HE LOVES ME AND I
PROMISE YOU "For it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God". THROUGH HIS LOVE HE WILL
ALWAYS BE WITH YOU
AMEN