I love how God can use everything and anything for His glory. From the worst, yucky points in our lives to the best and brightest. I also loves how He uses what little we can give for bigger and better things. I felt him calling me to start this blog and He is already using it for good, not only with people I know and love, but now with others I don’t even know!
I wrote a blog post a while back about why men struggle. I linked to some software we use called Covenant Eyes and through that the company found my blog. They liked my post and asked me to guest write one for them! What an honor! This happened a few weeks ago and I spent a good day at Starbucks physically writing what I was going to say (which I never do..typing is much easier!). After clearing it with my editor (AKA Matthew..) I sent it off and it was published on their blog today!
Here it is: Covenant Eyes Blog
Again, I am so blessed by this opportunity and very excited to see where the Lord will take me next! Who knows what He has in store!
3 Comments
Hi Erin
Firstly, I would like to say that I really love your blog! Your love for God and your husband is truly inspirational.
I’ve been dating my boyfriend for almost 1 year now. One of the very first things I knew about him, was his porn addiction. But because I was brought up very conservatively en naive (as he would say), I thought he was one out of a million and it will pass. But I was shocked when I saw the stats. Till now, I can not imagine or understand the desires and needs he has for it.
There is only a handful of people he told about it, unlike with your husband who admitted it openly.
He recently added me as his accountability partner on covenant eyes, which I think is a very big step. This morning however, I received the second report since I joined, and it was not good.
I don’t really know how to deal with this. I don’t want to overreact, but I was so hurt when I saw the report. I would’ve thought that adding me as an accountability partner, he would at least try and keep it clean. But then again, I appreciate that it is a struggle and can not be compared with my ‘chocolate addiction’.
I know I still need to learn alot, but how do you it? How do you support him? Is he going to struggle his whole life, does it change after marraige – is it getting better or worse? Will it ever stop? There’s so many resources and blogs and articles that highlights the damage it can cause to a marraige.
We love each other very much, and above all, we love God. I know, belive and trust that Nothing is impossible to God and miracles do happen…
I am just not sure if I would be strong enough to support him through it if I don’t see any improvement… He puts in alot of effort – he is seeing a counseler for the past 4 years, he reads alot on addiction, and use all the resources he can put his hands on. But then, on a bad day, he falls back into it.
I know through God there is always hope, so that it what I am holding on to. But until then, how do I support him?