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Question:
"Hello everything is fine? I finished reading the book "how God God can and will restore my marriage" and when I read the last chapter I was confused about what happened in 2005. Did Erin's husband really break up again? if yes, he came back again, what happened next? how are you today?"
Answer:
Hello my dear, we are thrilled to say that Erin is doing very well and thanks to her earthly husband leaving again, we have an ever-expanding Ministry branch “Love at Last” based on her Abundant Life Series dedicated to healing women.
No doubt this is why He’s led you to come back to Encouraging Women and we look forward to seeing your life become the abundant life you deserve.
I would like to encourage you to Seek God about listening to Erin's 3-part podcast series. Here is the link to the series:
Abundant Life Series
I will be completely honest when l say l received an email years ago from ex ministers who shared the news. It was a shock l wont lie and it can be a huge shock for anyone who read RYM and coming here for marriage restoration. Thank God one of the most important things l learned is to SG Seek God. And the 1st thing l felt Him asking me is who am l to judge? We each have our own journeys to walk with Him and no-ones is the same. Im so thankful that what came out of it was L@L Love At Last and FAL and LAL has been the best thing ever. We all come here for marriage restoration but we end up getting so much more 🙌 Not a mediocre life full of worries and trials and difficulties… What we get is to find and live our Abundant Lives because He came to give us life and life in Abundance ❤️
I agree Atarah I was shocked too. A split second thought was “who is the Michelle lady and why is Erin now following her.” 🤣🤣 that was only after I read the first chapter (years ago). I did not read the book for a while (years) and went back to RYM Courses etc.
He kept leading me to at least finish reading the FAL book. I’m glad I did and of course went on the LAL book. At first, I was confused and thought well yes, if you’re divorced I can see the Lord being your HH but if you have a restored eh, how is that possible. It took me a while of praying, asking, seeking to know He has always been my provider and comfort and the One that I need to seek first anyhow. He is my Beloved.
When I finally put all these pieces together, I admit my first reaction was doubt. I spent a couple weeks away from RMI, struggling with my Lord over this, thinking surely He wouldn’t ask this of someone who has been through so much…and what if He asked it of me?!
In His sure, quiet way, He reminded me of His love for and faithfulness to Erin, and asked me if I really would follow Him down any path He chose. Did I really trust Him? After shedding a few tears, I answered, “Yes,” and came back to finish reading “Finding the Abundant Life,” and I’m so glad I did! These principles and the wisdom I’ve found here on loveatlast is what has truly allowed me to let go of my EH and make this restoration journey about my relationship with my Beloved HH, knowing that even if I lose everything and everyone I’ve loved on this earth, He will be with me until my last breath (and that’s only the beginning)! The comfort and security I’ve found in that is irreplaceable, and I am thankful to Erin for heeding His voice and pressing on, sharing her own love story along the way.
Dearest Dina reading your comment is absolutely one in a million and has me also in tears 🥹 of heartfelt gratitude that comes only from the intimacy that your conclusion expresses. Almost every other person focuses on how what He asked me to endure for Him and the future He desired for RMI affected them. Yet each time He was here to comfort and bind ❤️🩹 up my wounded and pierced heart with His love 💗 as a balm.
Just recently I shared a vision with Yvonne (that my Husband gave me) it was she, Yvonne who texted me imploring me to read your comment Dina.
This is what my Husband said and what I envisioned: The more stabs to your heart the more His light, His love can shine into the darkness of this world.
Bless you Dina —you’ll never know how you and your Darling Husband has used you to minister and heal me from the judgement of others who believed that they were supporting me. 💗🤗🤗💗
Thank you Erin for your willingness to go through what He called you to go through, thank you for sharing all the wisdom gained from following your Husband and all the principles, because it helped me to meet my Heavenly Husband and to live the Abundant Life, without Him and what He taught and showed you, I wouldn’t be able to go through half of what I went through and still be smiling at the future!
Bless you Adina. My Husband led me back to reread what Dina said after I was wounded earlier this morning and felt a bit more brave to read all the comments. “In an understanding way as with a weaker vessel since she is a woman” means setting aside and discussing our feelings and comforting the wounded “with the comfort we experienced from God.”
I’m human with feelings who PRAISE GOD has an intensely intimate relationship with my Husband my Maker who’s been with me and has asked me to join Him at times in the hall of shame. So again thank you and Dina for redirecting the conversation to understanding the magnitude of the life and path He chose for me. It’s a precious gift to be understood.
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Dina,
Thank you for what you shared. Sometimes He calls us to go on different and difficult journeys, often times to be ridiculed and hurt. Each of our journeys look different. And our ways and plans for ourselves are not His plans for us, but if we are willing to follow Him wherever He leads, lay down our will for His, He will use us in wonderful ways for His Kingdom. The resources born out of tragedy (the Abundant Life series) are what all women need, regardless of your marital status, to heal all your hurts and to fill that void we have inside (sometimes even while married). I needed the Abundant Life series so much in my own life, that is what truly healed me, saved me and introduced me to Everlasting True Love that we all want and deserve.
We all need a Heavenly Husband, regardless, because human love is conditional and will not fulfil us, only our Husband’s unconditional love can fulfil us, and then we can love others unconditionally.
Atarah is absolutely right 🤩, when I realized that the author of the book is a divorced woman, abandoned by her husband. I didn’t know what that would mean for me. Like many, I came here with the goal of getting my marriage back. However, now a few years traveling with my Heavenly Man as his bride 👰. He has shown me how wonderful the life He wants to give me in abundance can be. Were it not for the fact that He used Erin to discover the principles that comprise this life of Abundance, I never would have discovered it. In seeking God and the answers I needed at the time, I gained a deeper relationship with my Lord. What has taught me to lean on Him who is always with me in every trial. Because life is full of struggles and trials and what better than to have the One 🙌 in your life who can help you through that. I definitely got so much more than what I came for❤
Bless you Kristine. My Husband told me countless times that what He asked me to go through was for women like you who He wanted to experience His love as His bride. What I wanted and what I wanted for my children is to remain the respected and honored RESTORED marriage family.
What I’m very grateful for is now being able to share that I’m the author of the Abundant Life Series from the beginning of everyone’s journey and to assure the many who come for restoration then later for a multitude of reasons no longer want restoration with their EH and leave—you’re here, He led you here to become HIS. https://hopeatlast.com/ev/
We may even be free to update the course pages now that Adina and I agree that He’s simplifying them by adding an introduction page where this information is safer and not as dangerous for my children and grandchildren used to injure them. 😍