They thought the marriage couldn't get much worse.

Anthony asked himself, "Will it get better? Is there a way to save this? To save us? What is marriage even supposed to really look like?"

With a supernatural and spiritual God, the answer is always yes. Transformation is always possible. He can do, and will do anything, and will step in to save, change, and redeem.

Marriage isn't easy. Being married to a First Responder is even harder. Being married to a First Responder and having your own issues behind the scenes is hardest of all. Possibly even a toxic combination.

Starting to drink in the morning, useless by the afternoon. Finding worth in the accolades of a law enforcement job that pushes you to the brink and will take everything, if you let it. Watching your wife suffer over a past that you have no idea how to fix or change.

When it all comes together and takes you to the edge, the only thing you can do is let God redeem and transform it.

And He always will. If you're open, if you ask, and if you truly let Him.

Hope, Healing, and Peace abounds.

Anthony's podcast websites:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lowe-expectations/id1723513165

https://www.diakonosacc.com/

https://diakonosacc.podbean.com/


Police Officer, Firefighter, Military, Soldier, First Responders, faith

Trauma, wellness, mental health, spirituality, suicide, redemption, peace, hope, healing, direction, meaning, darkness, despair, supernatural

Christianity, religion, church, Jesus, Christ, God, Bible, doubt, questions, questioning

Music by:

"Galactic Rap " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Leave me alone.

I don't want anything to do with the spiritual or supernatural. Steve walked away from that stuff long ago.

Steve told his wife that God, religion, that's your thing. I'm not reading the Bible. Leave me out of it. I want no part of it. Even after she was healed, in an instant.

Leaving faith so long ago, Steve never thought he'd come back. Then, questions. Of life, of more, his job as a First Responder, as a police officer made him question all that is and could be. But He wasn't heading back to church. There had to be something different.

Crystals, meditation, light, freedom, what's out there? What is God? Where is He? But nothing satisfied. Nothing held. Nothing filled.

His wife's sadness, depression, he wasn't sure how to help. Then, one day, it was gone. She had life. What happened? Medications? Life change? Spells, crystals, chance?

No. She told him, she'd been reading the Bible. Oh, and she reached out to Christ to be a part of her life. But Steve didn't have to. She wouldn't force it. She just wanted him to know.

Steve wasn't having any part of it. Until he was. Until like a Christmas morning something happened.

And he, and his family, would never be the same.



https://thingspolicesee.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/things-police-see-firsthand-accounts/id1384355891

https://www.facebook.com/steven.gould.988

Police Officer, Firefighter, Military, Soldier, First Responders, faith

Trauma, wellness, mental health, spirituality, suicide, redemption, peace, hope, healing, direction, meaning, darkness, despair, supernatural

Christianity, religion, church, Jesus, Christ, God, Bible, doubt, questions, questioning

Music by:

"Galactic Rap " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Who am I? Am I worthy? Do I mean anything? Am I loved?

Morgan thought God led her to be a Firefighter and First Responder. Turns out it was the worst experience of her life. As the darkness she dealt with piled up, not only on the job, but also inside the firehouse from her own co-workers, it seemed like the only way out was by her own hand.

Is the spiritual and supernatural real? Does God really hear me in my pain and struggle? Is there a point to the suffering? Is He really even there?

Things shouldn't be this way.

Life shouldn't be this difficult. God is leading, right? Christ did tell me to do this, right? That's what she thought she had always heard.

He has a purpose, a plan, and a point. She'd heard that so many times. But during her own struggles, she had questions that weren't answered. Jesus, are you there? Really? Because it sure doesn't feel like it right now.

Turns out God had other plans. Did Christ lead her into the fire just to come out as a new person? Maybe. She thinks so. Time will tell.

But Jesus held up His end of the bargain she made on that fateful day in the psychiatric ward, so now she's holding up hers.

It is truly an invitation to peace, and to connect, with God.



https://www.instagram.com/morg_murchland/

https://www.facebook.com/morgan.murchland.9

https://www.heroicdeedsbrand.com/

https://www.heroicdeeds.org/

Police Officer, Firefighter, Military, Soldier, First Responders, faith, Miss Ohio, female

Trauma, wellness, mental health, spirituality, suicide, redemption, peace, hope, healing, direction, meaning, darkness, despair

Christianity, religion, church, Jesus, Christ, God, Bible, doubt, questions, questioning,

Music by:

"Galactic Rap " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/