{"id":956,"date":"2008-06-18T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=956"},"modified":"2008-06-18T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:00:56","slug":"boom-chicka-wa-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Grace makes beauty out of ugly things…"},"content":{"rendered":"

most of you who read my blog know that i used to have an intense porn addiction<\/a>. i have been open about it, pretty much from the beginning. you have been gracious, loving and supportive.<\/p>\n

and i know that even after what i say today, you still will be. for that, i am thankful. even knowing that, it is still hard to bring myself to say this… but here goes:<\/p>\n

i looked at porn last night. <\/strong><\/p>\n

even though i practically closed it faster than it came up, it still happened. i searched for it. it wasn’t an accident. unfortunately, i don’t have an excuse good enough to justify doing it at all other than, as with any addiction, i am human and i sinned.<\/p>\n

as part of this blog community, i felt i owed it to you to be honest and to be accountable for my actions. <\/em><\/p>\n

my tuesday was a rough one, having attended a funeral and having fought a migraine since monday, among other things. i was searching for something to comfort me, and even though i have come close to using porn as an escape before, i have fight off the temptations that came my way. but for whatever reason, last night, i gave in.<\/p>\n

just goes to show, that if you’re not prayed-up and not on guard, and not seeking Him first to comfort… the enemy can creep in. particularly through our weakest areas and in our most vulnerable times. i am grateful and humbled to have a Savior with enough grace to cover my every weakness.<\/p>\n

and yours.<\/p>\n

if you need help with your porn or sexual addiction… contact me<\/a>, i’d love to talk with you or visit xxxchurch.com<\/a> for incredible resources.<\/p>\n

thank you for your grace. <\/strong><\/p>\n

….for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace<\/strong> through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.<\/em> Romans 3:23-25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

most of you who read my blog know that i used to have an intense porn addiction. i have been open about it, pretty much from the beginning. you have been gracious, loving and supportive. and i know that even after what i say today, you still will be. for that, i am thankful. even… Continue reading Grace makes beauty out of ugly things…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,165,19,47,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-box-of-chocolates","category-church","category-porn","category-sermonettes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}