Oh, friend:

After surviving over 25 years of emotional abuse in her first marriage, Darlene Larson thought God was finally turning her story around. She met a man in church: a divorce care and grief/loss leader. He proposed in the very sanctuary where they both worshiped. But two and a half years into their marriage, he walked out. The betrayal was so deep, Darlene questioned whether she even wanted to trust God again.

In this raw, vulnerable episode, Darlene shares her journey through what she calls the deepest pain she's ever experienced—deeper even than decades of abuse—and how she learned the Greek concept of splanchna: God's compassion that moves Him to action when He sees us in our hellish pain. Through 132 checkboxes of grief and loss, six months alone in the marriage home, and years of "gutting it out with God," Darlene disc ...