This week we were featured over at Reclaimed Story in both blog and podcast. It begins:

We were just kids: 14 and 16 years old. A freshman and a junior. We went to the same high school and the same church. John was the leader of our campus Christian club.

ANGEL:

The first time I met him I thought, “That’s the man I want to marry.” We married at 19 and 21, respectively, and we were what most people thought was the “perfect couple”. We heard it many times: “I want a relationship like yours!”

Fast forward 18 years to a campus ministry retreat in Lake Pleasant, New York. As the music swells I begin shaking and weeping. I can’t keep living in lies. I collapse into a chair. John joins me. I speak over the worship, “I’ve been having an affair. “ 

Only a rescuing and redeeming God could restore what we had destroyed.

JOHN:

In the summer of our tenth year of marriage disaster struck. On top of the wild juggle of our lives—two young children, pastoring, counseling, and running a church relocation and capital stewardship campaign—we continually had at least one other person living in our home with us. This was almost always a good experience, but that year it was not.

You can read the rest here or listen to the podcast here.

Read the second half of the story here or listen to it here.

Read the Original posts from The Bee Hive here: 1.Our Story: The Start; 2. Our Story: Foxes Loosed; 3. Our Story: Confession; 4. Our Story: Restoration.