July 11th, 2010
Going Through Dark Valleys
Power to Cope with Going Through Dark Valleys
POWER TO COPE GOING THROUGH DARK VALLEYS
When Richard D’Avanzo married his childhood sweetheart he really thought their compatibility would last all their lives. Then his mom died suddenly and that loss caused him to search for answers about life and death. It was a search that led him in a spiritual direction that he found fulfilling–but in which his wife did not have keen interest. After 35 years of marriage, she chose divorce, and he crumpled with the shock of their break-up. What followed was truly the reality of God’s power carrying him through other challenges while he went back to school, got advanced degrees, held seminars on divorce recovery, authored a book about his experiences–and formed another relationship that again ended in a devastating divorce. The insights this man shares are meaningful and profound. He is not living the life of a rejected man, but rather a man who has found his center in the Savior who has proven to him that He is enough in dark valleys.