{"id":4520,"date":"2023-08-24T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2023-08-24T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:44:32","slug":"real-talk-kim-encourages-people-to-seek-healing-after-divorce-gods-got-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/08\/real-talk-kim-encourages-people-to-seek-healing-after-divorce-gods-got-a-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"Real Talk Kim Encourages People to Seek Healing After Divorce: ‘God’s Got a Plan’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pastor Kimberly Jones of Limitless Church in Fayetteville, Georgia, known to many as \u201cReal Talk Kim,\u201d said her divorce almost let hatred lead her away from God\u2019s purpose for her life. Now, she\u2019s empowering others to get up and move forward as they work through the issues that keep them stuck.<\/p>\n

Jones, a pastor\u2019s daughter who grew up with a learning disability, thought she would never recover after her first divorce at 36. She was financially destitute with two sons, depressed, and had to move back in with he parents. Years later, after another failed marriage, she started the self-evaluation process, seeking God daily and finding the purpose in her pain. During that process, Jones wrote her new book, You Gotta Get Up: Grab Hold of Your Life After Being Knocked Down, Held Back, and Left Out.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Jones said she\u2019s come out on the other side and hopes to empower others to do the same. In a recent interview with The Christian Post, Jones said, \u201cI walked through a divorce in 2006 after an 18-year marriage, and he was my God. In the religion I was raised in, if you get divorced, you\u2019re going to hell on a slide and slide. It was not even heard of in 2006 in the church; now it\u2019s rampant.\u201d She continued, \u201cI found myself humiliated. I found myself with two sons, Lincoln and Morgan. They were 7 and 9. No one understood what I was walking through because nobody in my family had walked through a divorce. I felt like a mockery to my father, who was in ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones said she and the father of her sons were like the \u201cBarbie and Ken of the church,\u201d with the perfect life as they led as worship pastors. After he left, she didn\u2019t know how she would recover. She recalled, \u201cI laid in my bed for the first year just mad at God because why couldn\u2019t he heal my marriage? I had to move back in with my mom and dad because I lost everything. In that process, after a year of laying in my bed feeling sorry for myself, one day, I remember praying and saying, \u2018God, take this pain away from me. If you\u2019re not going to heal my marriage, take the pain away. And I promise you, probably the first time in my life, I felt this still small voice inside of me, and He said, \u2018I can\u2019t take it away, you got to get up and walk away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n