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Author: kcarpenter
• Saturday, May 09th, 2009

After much prayer and consideration.  I feel that I need to clarify and apologize for including irrelevant events and painting my ex husband in a bad light by misconstruing information.  He is a very loving father and a very caring person.  I included an instance in my testimony that I had no right to include and should have asked his permission before I wrote it.  I need to clarify that he is not, by any means an abusive person.  Due to immaturity and selfishness, I knew how to provoke him to the utmost pinnacle of anger and hurt, and the night that I wrote about was in fact, a product of one of the arguments.   Again, I do want to stress and reiterate that he is not an abusive person.  It was not a Christian fruit of the spirit on my part to write so negatively about him as it was not a detrimental part of my salvation, but was in fact, speculation and my point of view.  I do pray that no wrong judgment would be made towards him for my folly.

I do want to say publicly that the whole purpose for the testimony was to admit that I am an absolutely sinful person and to show God’s mercy through changing me, not to point out or condemn anyone else.  I did not include all of my sins as I did not want to edify them, nor did I feel like I needed to list every sin.  I know and believe that God is merciful and He examines my heart and knows that my intent of my testimony was not malicious and that I do have a repentant heart for any misrepresentation that I might have made.  I do want to reiterate, however, that I have found amazing freedom through the grace of Christ Jesus and know that I am now whiter than snow.  I am guilty of some absolutely horrible things, and for that I am truly sorry for the hurts I have caused and the friendships I have lost.  I pray that one day I can restore hurt relationships and that they will truly be a light for God’s glory.

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