Day 3 – When You’re Standing at the Edge – Michael Vowell: Reflections on Grace, Love, and Leadership

To Trish in Denver

“Michael, I’ve been considering divorce for a while now. I haven’t told my husband how I feel — not because I’m scared, but because I don’t want to hurt him. I don’t know if we can fix this, but I also don’t know how to talk about it.”

Trish,
You are standing in sacred tension: between staying and leaving, between silence and truth. And what I hear is not fear, but love that’s been starved too long. That’s a powerful place to begin.

You’re not broken because your marriage is struggling. You’re not weak because you’re weary. You’re a Christian woman, trying to keep a promise when your heart feels disconnected. And that takes courage, not shame.

Here’s the truth: silence will not save your marriage. Communication is the first mercy. You don’t need to have all the answers. But you do need to speak. With gentleness. With clarity. With hope that something real can be rebuilt. Speak with the hope of reconciliation as long as reconciliation is a reality.

Sometimes the threshing floor isn’t the end of a marriage — it’s the death of pretense, and the beginning of something holy.

You’re not alone, Trish. You’re not failing. You’re awakening.

With you on the trail,
— Michael Vowell

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