In the last articles, I talked about my journey with prayer and affirmations. If you missed reading them, here are the links:
Part Five of My Story
In Part Four of my story, I shared my troubled 20-year marriage to an abusive man. Since we were both church-going Christians, I took my problem to the church pastor, to various friends and church groups, looking for answers. Of course, I continued my personal prayer. But there did not seem to be a solution!
God/Spirit was not answering my prayer to change my husband! So I took the bold step I thought I would never do, and packed up my littlest daughter and left my abusive husband. (By this time, the older two were already gone and my middle son wanted to stay with his dad.)
I still remember that day very clearly! My 8-year-old daughter and I cried all the way down the 4-mile grade to the friend who took me in during this time. “Mommy is it really
that bad?” she asked me. Obviously, I did a good job of hiding her from the horrors I and her older siblings went through with her father.
Overwhelmed with fear and grieve, I finally began to feel a small glimmer of hope and with a growing sense of relief!
So what had I done differently?
I took the matter to prayer and took responsibility to make the change within myself in order to bring about my own peace.
This relates directly to the book I shared in Part Two of my story: ‘The Road Less Traveled’ by M. Scott Peck. I finally realized I needed to stop expecting God to change my (now ex-) husband and take control of my own life.
Prayer — yes! Mindset change — needed! Action — necessary!
I finally took responsibility for my unhappiness and acted on my own prayers in order to become free. Little did I know the path created by this decision affected my life from that point on …
Then, I discovered the power of Spiritual Mind Treatment …
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