Chapter 1 | Background
This is from a series of blog posts I wrote back in 2020 to share the background for what was to come. It will help you understand the context of the rest of the stories if you read this introductory series.
Welcome!
We’ve experienced so much we want to share with you and we’re hoping that this blog becomes a source of light for you as you walk through life and navigate your own challenges and relationships.
MJ and I have been married for over 18 years. Our marriage has survived (and is thriving) after going through an ordeal that could easily have destroyed it. Not every marriage survives this kind of calamity, and fewer still come back from the edge stronger than ever. Not just stronger than ever, but with a peace and love that transcends understanding. Something we didn’t even know we could hope for.
As our marriage was put through the wringer, we each individually experienced what we now look back on as ‘an awakening’. It feels strange to say that. Claiming to be ‘awake’ or ‘having awakened’ or even ‘awakening’ is something I’ve shied away from in some ways because the more that I awaken to, the more I see how little I know and how much there still is to learn.
Nonetheless, it’s clear to me that I can say with the man that Jesus healed in John 9 “I don’t know…. But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”
