“If I hadn’t had my church, if they had left me alone and I had to go through it all by myself, then I do not know if our marriage could have survived it.” —Joy
Joy couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing. Her ambitious, self-reliant husband—the man who hadn’t cried once in their 25-year marriage—was curled up on the floor, sobbing.
Joy had been excited to bring Mark on the retreat to learn more about the Holy Spirit. Their new church, Lutheran Church of Hope, was breathing fresh life into her walk with God, and she was eager for Mark to experience the same.
“Mark absolutely gave his heart to Christ that day,” Joy says. “He was a new man, and all of the friends who knew him before, and all of our kids, now talk about ‘old Mark’ and ‘new Mark.’”
Joy knew the tears spilling down Mark’s face were a sign of powerful surrender. But she didn’t yet know that Mark was also weeping over a secret he had been carrying for 2 1⁄2 years.
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