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Dear Andrea I am about to become a mother-in-law. Our family has always been close-knit and Christian. Since becoming engaged, our son has been pulling away emotionally and spiritually, as well as physically from us. While I realize a certain amount of this is normal, I am feeling left out and no longer a part of his life. His siblings and my husband agree that he has become “obsessed” with his fiance and she has become everything to him. Furthermore, we are hearing things she is saying to discredit us in little ways, for example, “Your parents favor your sister over you. My friend noticedRead More →

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Dear Andrea, I signed a prenup before I was married to my present husband… in the 5.5 years that we have been married, well to put it short, he is an alcoholic . . . so, what I would like to know is: How can I void the prenup agreement . . . ? My children are grown and married and they tell me I can live with them, but if I move out now I’m afraid I will get nothing. My husband is very verbally abusive and belittles me all of the time and he won’t admit he has a problem. Thank you veryRead More →

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  Found this dream on Adam’s blog:   “I had a dream that a massive swarm of grasshoppers or locusts had been spotted, and that people were warned to take refuge in their houses. I did so, and somehow developed the idea that I urgently needed to turn off the HVAC system to keep them from entering that way. At that point I woke up.”   Locusts were a plague of egypt, and can be a symbol of God’s judgment, or merely an indicator of trouble, possibly in your business, as a carryover from times when most of us were farmers, or, it could also meanRead More →

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Gentle readers, I’m helping my mother recover from surgery, so please forgive my tardiness. Basil interviewed me last weekend. Check it out if you’d like to get know me a little better. Also, I have an article up at Adam’s Blog that you may find of interest, The Whipping Boy, which discusses how we relate to Christ. I pray it may encourage the brethren to draw in deeper with the Lord. Love in Christ, Andrea

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Dear David,

Her husband plays the I’m-still-your-husband card because, until the divorce is final, he is still her husband. I know this is difficult for you emotionally to accept, but please listen. Getting involved with a married woman to begin with was a mistake. That’s adultery, the same offense her husband committed. Adultery is a divorceable offense, but she and her husband both have now committed the same sin and it seems to me God has been convicting her. If her conscience says God’s command for us to forgive would have her reconcile to him that is what she must do, regardless of his past offenses.