When God writes your love story

 

Joe and Melia Harrington

 

By : Eric and Leslie Ludy

 

June 28th, 2014 - I married my best friend Joseph Harrington. <3  

 

 

Today is April 15th, 2015 - We have not been married a full year yet. But so far, marriage is pretty.... HARD!

 

Before marriage, we never spoke a harsh word to each other. Life was beautiful, we were content.

Last year, Easter Sunday, we were facing separation, but chose one last hope.. We went to church. Christway Community Church. God has and still is transforming our lives! A church body supporting and encouraging a brand new marriage is key to success!

 

 

But! A couple months ago, things turned worse. My father passed away. Now I am living this life without my mom or dad. Two people so dear and precious to me. I have really had to adjust and learn a lot about myself, including growing into a woman. The woman my dad taught me to be, to love and honor my husband and to love and fear God.

 

Doctors thought it was wise to put me on an antidepressant to face the growing depression. MISTAKE. I became a monster! I became agitated, hateful, wanted to crawl out of my own skin, and worse... Die! We sought help from the church and I came off of the medication inpatient at Valley, monitored and safe. THIS was scary, and painful! I was away from my daughter Stormy for 4 days. Away from my family, my life.

 

Thankfully I was weaned off the medication, but then became addicted to the anxiety, relaxing, "happy pills" they gave me. I sunk deeper into a hole of self medicating, selfishness, hatefulness to those around me. Only cared about myself. And Joe and I became distant. Not because he wasn't there for me. But because I pushed him and everyone away. I was hateful and ugly in spirit.

 

I knew God would save me from this nightmare that I entered into, so I clung to His Word with every ounce of my being. I made a youtube channel to follow my difficult but transforming journey. (Melia Harrington) When God writes your love story 2015

 

I held on for dear life! And today... I am over 2 weeks with NO medication! We had a meeting at our church to reconcile the relationships I disrupted and they are encouraging and supporting us as we grow into what God wants us to be. I will continue to seek counsel and to stay in Gods Word and grow spiritually with my husband. So here I am Lord...

 

Write my love story <3

 

I continue to trust you and your Will Lord. Take and protect, bless, nourish and grow our marriage. Our lives are for you, use us, bless us. Thank you for my amazing husband God! <3 Amen

 

NOW is the time to lay the foundation for a lifelong romance. With humor and heart, Eric and Leslie Ludy (Authors of When God writes your love story) showcase the extraordinary beauty of a God scripted romance and the secrets to an amazing love story that can stand the tests of time. The God who created me... is ready to write our love story.

 

 

Take a moment to gain a new perspective on true romance God's way!!

 

 

If you'd like to save the world one more broken heart or fill a heart that is budding with love, share a copy of When God writes your love story, give one to a special friend.

This is for anyone who has longed to sing a sweeter song. <3

 

Eric and Leslie Ludy www.setarpartlife.com

 

 

The Awakening

 

I am blessed to have my husband Joe.

If I didn't, I would have sleepness nights of agony, weeping until no more tears came. I would have to face the aching, desperate lonlieness of walking into a crowded room full of strangers with no hand to hold, no strong arm to gently rest on my back and give me security, I'd be... alone.

 

THIS, is the pain I feel in those many dreams I've had about losing my husband, but this is also how Leslie describes when she experienced her first breakup. I always take my husband for granted. Everyday isn't promised, and this is my WAKE UP CALL!

 

In my younger years, I had given pieces of myself away to each guy that came into my life. Pieces of my heart, my emotions, and even my body! Yet each time, once he got bored with me, my fragile heart got tossed aside. I longed to be loved, and cherished. I had dreamed of a perfect love story ever since I was a 5 year old girl watching Cinderella.

 

 

But somewhere in the midst of the endless cycle of one temporary romance after the next, my dreams had shattered right along with the broken and fragmented pieces of my heart. Yes, I was young. But even so, I'd already begun to give up hope on the idea of ever finding my real love.

Growing up in church. I had listened carefully to the instructions given by my youth group leaders and tried to follow Gods Word. But the rules failed to protect me from a broken heart and shattered life. I ended up in several abusive relationships and pregnant! I observed my Christian friends, I saw they were following the same pattern, an endless cycle of shallow and cheap romances that never lasted and left us emotionally bleeding and insecure.

 

My desperation motivated me to start praying. I'd been a Christian from about 5, but God had taken a backseat in my life. I would have said He was my highest priority, but in reality I was far more pre occupied with guys, friends and my social status. I didn't see anything wrong with the way I chose to live my life. Even though God wasn't the centerpiece of my daily life, I assumed that I was still on good terms with Him.

 

But the fact that I kept getting my heart broke and ending up in abusive unhealthy relationships, finally made me wonder if I was doing something wrong! After years of depression and confusion, I cried out to God. "What am I doing wrong?" "Why am I so miserable and insecure?" "Why does every relationship end this way?" 

 

 

 

Then came a soft tugging at my heart. Suddenly, somehow I knew that my life did not need to be this way and that God had something better for me. I felt Him gently whisper these words to my soul :

 

"You continue to get your heart broken because you are holding the pen of your life and trying to write your own story. I am the Author of true love. I am the Creator of romance. I know your hearts every desire. I want to script a beautiful tale just for you, but first you must give me the pen. You must let me become the center of your existence. You must let me have total control of your love life, and every other area of your life as well."

 

 

God was asking me then, and now, to give Him control, to trust Him fully and completely, wholeheartedly. To write my love story. <3

I know if I don't trust Him, I will only find more heartache and disappointment. I've made a mess of this area of my life so far. It's clear, I need some serious help!

 

So, more out of desperation than confidence, I am inviting the Creator of the universe to be the center of my love life. The Author of love and romance, who loves me more than I can comprehend, has a plan for my love life that will take my breath away with it's beauty.

 

I met my soul mate in April 2012, married him June 28th, 2014. I don't know if I could every fully convey the wonder of what it is like to have a God written love story. The cheap imitation romance I'd known before simply could not be compared to this new kind of love. All by simply giving God the pen of my life's story and allowing Him to write each chapter.

 

<3 "As for God, His way is perfect." Psalm 18:30

 

In todays, Do It Yourself Christianity.. many scoff at the idea of God scripting a love story. It's deemed more spiritual to make your own decisions and then ask God to bless our choices. And that's how most modern Christians have chosen to approach this area of life. It's true that God scripted love stories are not common in todays world, but the reason is that so few of us are truly willing to allow God to have His way in our lives. As long as we are in control, we don't give Him the opportunity to prove just how interested He is in this precious area of our lives.

 

God doesn't need to imitate the worlds method for writing a love story, He has His own version. And once I find myself in the pages of His captivating script, I'll never want to go back to the mediocre romances of our modern times!

 

 

God is intensely interested in this area of your life. If you choose to trust Him with absolute abandon, you will discover something beyond all you've ever dreamed of. The One who knows you better than you know yourself and who loves you more than you can comprehend, wants to take you on a journey. The journey is for anyone who is searching for the beauty of true and lasting love, for romance in it's purest form, and who is willing to do whatever it takes to find it. The journey is for anyone who has made mistakes and said "It's too late for me to discover that kind of love."

 

The Author of all true love and romance stands before me asking, "Will you let me write your love story?"

 

Yes...