May I offer

http://simonrobert.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/making-the-modern-world/

Have a good Advent.

You are in a healing state right now and that takes time just as it does physically. There is pain involved.

I would also direct you to the following website, http://www.graceisforsinners.com Talk to Serena and tell her I sent you. I think that she can provide some help to you.

Do you have a faith community to be involved in?

God is with you Bonnie!

He pursued me off and on for over a year and i grew more and more enchanted with him… always keeping the sanctity of my marriage in tact ( my husband knew of our friendship and had little concern) My marriage of 22 years had been quite difficult in the area of intimacy ie my husband was quite neglectful of me and would often fly into angry abusive arguments that would leave me feeling devastated…but we also had much happiness and 3 beautiful kids.. My “friend” persuaded me to go over to his house a few times which i did and i even kissed him but nothing else..then one night he begged pleaded and pleaded with him to be intimate with him..i caved in and gave him what he asked.

After that he abandoned me told his mates ignored my texts and spoke vile evil derogatory things about me… turned one of my dearest girlfriends away from me and hooked up with her. ( She even betrayed my confidence and told mutual girlfriends what i did then dumped me with a cruel text telling me to stop ruining everyones life ( cos i wanted to tell my husband what i had done …and i have now done this and he has forgiven me)

In spite of my husbands forgiveness The shame and humiliation is almost crippling..i wish for death often… i am terrified of meeting someone in the shops who may know me and what they both said.

I know my guilt….. i have confessed it and repented deeply. But its the knowledge i was seduced used and cast aside and described pornographically that has destroyed my sense of worth. I loved my friends dearly and i was always there for them both. i have been reduced to a filthy memory and no amount of Gods forgiveness or even my forgiveness of them ( which i have done) seems to remove this horror and despair i feel .

The shame and embarrassment i feel is too much for me.. i can find no one who has experienced such betrayal and treachery done to them ( i know i did this to my husband i am not making excuses but there where extenuating circumstances in my view and i had wandered away from God big time)My husband is not suffering as i am and has even voiced his admission as being partly responsible for the way he treated me)

Can you please help me or show me where to find Gods perspective in the bible or some verses that may help me

Thankyou kindly

Bonnie

I blog about marriage and how men can better love their wives everyday in a practical way. I hope you will check it out when you have a chance. I think you will enjoy it.

http://whatsheneedsfromyou.wordpress.com

Thanks,

I looked up the 3-D rendering of the Shroud of Turin (here: http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/3d.htm )
and it actually doesn’t look that far off from the composite image.

It shouldn’t surprise us or harm our faith, though, that Jesus looks like one of us. He came to us as a human being, and it makes sense that he would look like a human being. If he’d walked around with a halo, everyone would have believed! But instead we needed to see him with our hearts.