Please Pray for Ken and Natasha

Please pray for Ken and Natasha. We are both going through difficult times in a long-distance relationship. We both have been hurt very much in the past and need to be healed.

Natasha has been through so much pain and darkness in her life that it has caused her to be self-destructive and afraid to love. She grew up in a family that never expressed love with each other, and then suffered the verbal and physical abuse of both her father and step father, as well a devastating broken heart when her first love cheated on her, and sent her into a period of deep depression for a year. Sometimes she shows great anger and coldness, then asks me to ignore these times because it is not her true self. She asked me to teach her how to love,and to live a life of happiness together as husband and wife with our future children. But I am afraid that the darkness within her will cause her to sabotage our relationship. We were so close to being married after three years of waiting to be together, only to have a big argument which resulted in her returning home to Ukraine to help her father with his problems. She accepted my ring and said she would return, but I feel her slipping away and I also worry that there may be more problems in getting another visa.

I have also suffered through more heartbreak in life in all my relationships. I was married to a woman I loved and was devoted to for 9 years. Only to have her first throw me away in favor of her mother, and then discover that she had been having a sexual affair with one of her co-workers for a year. I had never felt so much pain before - both for me and our two beautiful children. I tried to save the marriage at first, but could not convince her to work on it so we divorced. Then I met Natasha, and from the first moment we spoke, it truly felt that God had brought us together and I saw in my heart that she would be my wife. I felt truly blessed as did she. Now my heart is filled with despair that it may end in tragedy as well.

Please pray to end our sorrows, love and trust in each other, and remove all those things that are keeping us from being happily married forever. God please have mercy on us. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Amen..