Love Warrior

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Her story about the resurrection of her marriage (a tale of a woman daring to come into her body, and a man daring to come into his mind, and the two of them daring with outrageous courage to trust each other) is something beyond merely inspirational; it is epic.

This is a big, stunning, buoyant, honest, raw glimpse into the life of an astonishing woman, but it is also a punch in the face to anyone anywhere who believes that this is just how it is and it's not going to get any better. You might not even quite realize yet how much of that you have left behind — but I can see by this writing what you have left behind, and what you have become. Their bodies are light and wispy and they seem to float and flit together, in a unit—like a school of fish.

It was dangerous work because there were deadly, invisible toxins in the mines, but the miners’ bodies weren’t sensitive enough to register the poison. I felt like I was right there with you in it and I remembered so powerfully my own loneliness and suffering, my own grief and renewal. In her memoir, Love Warrior, Melton lays bare the story of their broken marriage and path to reconciliation, including how she came to answer her husband’s question—and her realization of how she also needed to ask God the same question. Just when Glennon Doyle was beginning to feel she had it all figured out - three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list - her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed.

When we reach the entrance, the ticket ladies smile, put their hands over their hearts, and say, “Aren’t you three the most precious things?Mom and I smile at the ladies, say thank you, and together we join the crowd under the bright stadium lights. I’m sad that unbelievers see this bad witness of the church and think that Oprah’s book club has a better gospel to offer. I explain that he was a coal miner in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and that every morning my great-grandmother packed a lunch pail for him and sent him down into the mines. It will be a hard road to send it out there and many will misunderstand or minimize or explain it away but the pain will be worth it because this writing is a giant battle cry of surrender.

So I stand there in fear that this will be the day the real, hungry, sweaty, needy me rises too close to the surface and the sharks circle. Essentially this means to shed the layers of what society has taught her about who she is and what she should be, and to embrace her true self instead. I want them to see the beauty and power that come from healing their relationship with themselves, which Glennon describes as becoming a “Love Warrior. She also talks quite a bit about the ‘scandal’ her marital separation caused in her church and in her community, with people everywhere giving her unsolicited advice.

When the game is over, I run onto the field because my dad is looking for me, always looking for me.