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Be encouraged by this story of a hopeless marriage made right. As we pray about our own marriages or intercede for others’, know that forgiveness and reconciliation is possible and that God is mighty.

“Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.’ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” (Gen 2:22-24)

Lorrie Agan of Bowling Green, Ohio, is about to marry her soulmate. But getting to this moment was not easy. After her first marriage ended in a bitter divorce, Lorrie says she couldn’t have ever imagined this.

“It’s a miracle that this happened,” Lorrie said. “This doesn’t happen every day, that people get a second chance at true love.”

Her first chance ended so badly, the memory of it was relegated to a closet floor. Their eight wonderful children aside, Lorrie says she and her ex-husband just did not mesh.

“The fighting, what the kids were witnessing. I just didn’t want in our lives anymore,” she said.

The kids say it was that bad. They told us “we blamed ourselves,” and that they thought “it was because of us.”

The whole family was an absolute wreck. But in the wake of the divorce, Lorrie decided to fix the only person she could: herself. She worked hard to build-up her self-esteem and got treatment for depression.

Meanwhile, across town, her ex-husband Jeff was going through his own reckoning. He sought treatment for alcoholism and turned his life around. Like Lorrie, he wanted to change for himself, not her.

But their self-improvements came with an unintended consequence. Eventually, they could actually tolerate being in the same room at the same time. They didn’t have to have two separate birthday parties for each kid. And last year, they spent Christmas together.

Still, not even the children knew how close they’d become — until Lorrie got her present from Jeff.

It was a love poem that ended with a familiar ring. Laurie had found her soulmate – again.

“There are no words to express what I felt at that moment,” she said.

Last month, four years after their break-up, Lorrie and Jeff got married. They called it a healing ceremony. And heal, it did.

“I was just so happy for my parents,” said Sean, one of their children. “It’s just they’ve both come so far. I’m just so proud of them.”

“We get a do-over. Who gets do-overs in this world?” said Lorrie.

“The big thing I would add to that is: don’t be too proud to get help, because some jobs are too big for you to do by yourself,” said Jeff.

Sometimes we like say love is lost, when often it’s just misplaced, and waiting to be found. (Excerpts from Steve Hartman article on CBS News)

Watch Video: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/after-bitter-divorce-couple-gets-a-second-chance-at-love

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Beverly Irvin
June 8, 2018

What do you do when the ex-spouse has past away and you still desire to be married?
At the age of 61 my desire to be married is still very strong. A lot of people think that I’m foolish and laugh behind my back for thinking this way. Maybe I am foolish but foolish or not my desire is to be married. This time to a god-guy.

Connie Elkins
June 1, 2018

Father, please heal marriages. Your word says You will make the rough places smooth. Your gentle, good hand is greatly needed here. Do what seems impossible in families and repair the breach. Restore the broken places and make us whole once again. We need strong marriages for strong churches and a strong America. Heal us again Lord.

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