Major issues and trouble
This is an ad hoc post. I have heard terrible and shattering news. My daughter has fallen pregnant!!!!!! Oh hell… This is hell on earth. She told us on the weekend, and my wife is relapsing all the time. I am trying to remain strong, and have felt strength from my God…. but tonight my daughter came home late and my wife got into a very angry mood. She wants to leave me now, - I feel so bad for her. She does not need this on top of all the grief and devastation I have caused her. I am just numb numb numb. I feel we are really going on a road to nowhere. All my efforts are futile. My wife is relapsing. iMy daughter of 19 pregnant, a girl who is starting out on her life with 6 7 matric distinctions. All seems very very lost right now. I cannot think straihght. I am trying to maintain my business, fix everything with my lovely wife, rebuild everything…. now this. I know God is punishing me and I’m trying to bear it manfully and wothout complaining. Just feel so shattered. But I know that I have shattered my wife, so can understand her better as I now go through this. I am ranting a bit, but just feel indescribably terrible.
Oh GOD: I pray again and very very simply and humbly ]that You help my wife. We semed to have been progressing so well. I have been doing evrything in my power to fix my errors. Please see that and have mercy on me. Have mercy on HER nad heal her.Now I also need to pray for my daughter. This is all so devastating.I simply pray for Your help. Give me stength to help my family.PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
October 28th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Sorry to hear of this devastating development in your family. Hold fast to God. He has gotten you through much and will get you through this.
I do not believe that God ‘punishes’ us but sometimes the result of our sin is very painful. You may have brought sexual sin into your family, but you have taken the appropriate steps to lead them back to God.
This is your chance to model love and forgiveness to your daughter. Just as what you did will never be right, what your daughter did will never be right. But God loves and God forgives, and we try to follow His supreme example. Your wife probably feels betrayed by both her daughter and husband, but if you remain strong and loving and connected to God you can lead her through this.
I will continue to pray for you, your wife, and now your daughter.
In Christ,
Bob