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This Blog is my story and how God brought me through the storm. I was in an abusive marriage for 29 years. I escaped in January 2025. This is how God was there for me even when I didn’t see him.
1st Peter 5:7 – Let him have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.
I have always known God is with us, but also, I didn’t have my eyes open to see it. The first time I really saw and felt him was a week or two after I had called 911. My husband had chased me out the door and wouldn’t let me leave. It was early in the morning. I was going to the gym and he never liked me going. He always accused me of meeting somebody, which I never did. He was yelling and throwing his fist. I ran out the door and yelled for Siri on my phone to call 911. He would get drunk every night. He was still a little drunk when this happened. The phone call got disconnected. They called back, but by the time they called back he had backed away from my car. I was able to leave. I met one officer in the parking lot down the road. The other officer went to the house to talk to my husband. I was feeling numb. While we were talking, he received a call from the other officer for assistance. He went to the house. When he came back, he gave me his card and told me if I ever needed them to call and they would be there. He also told me about domestic violence resources. At the time I didn’t feel I could leave. I felt stuck. After that happened, I did go to the gym and run for a few minutes before changing my clothes and going to work. When I left the gym, he was waiting for me in the parking lot. He was mad and told me that I didn’t know what calling 911 would do to him. He said that the consequences of my actions could affect him. I did not want to go home that night. I met with an attorney that afternoon to see what I could do. It did not go well. He didn’t seem interested. We talked for about 10 minutes and throughout that time he didn’t seem to either understand or care. It was the first time I hadn’t cried about it all day. I was just numb. Before I left, he gave me the divorce financial affidavit and said, “show this to him, maybe he will change”. We were married 27 years at the time. He had hit me, kicked me, punched me, pushed me, thrown me and called me anything and everything you could think of in those 27 years. We had been to counseling and I even asked a pastor for help. I knew he wasn’t the lawyer for me. He didn’t understand that if I showed him the affidavit he would likely either kill me or hurt me. That morning when I used Siri to call 911 I believe that was God, I had never thought of calling using Siri before. I had tried to call before we had cell phones, and he would grab the phone and throw it across the room. He could not run and my instinct was to run out the door. I had my phone in my hand since I was leaving and just yelled. I didn’t even think about it. I believe God guided me to use that resource to get help. My anxiety and depression were extremely high on a normal day due to always walking on eggshells. After this it got worse. One day on the way home from work I was gripping the steering wheel and leaning forward crying that I couldn’t do this anymore. Suddenly, I felt arms around me. Comforting me. All the tension left. There was calm. The pressure on my chest was gone. That is the first time I opened my eyes and really saw that God was with me. That made me think of all the times throughout the years that he has helped me and I didn’t see it. I didn’t give him credit for helping me. All the years through the dark fog he was always with me. He just wanted me to give my anxieties to him and not try to handle it on my own.
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