Comments on: Love Gone Bad: Demi Moore's Sad Downward Spiral

By: Ben Toh

Ben Toh — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:16:56 +0000

Thanks, Mary. I hear you. As a man and a husband I too want and need to be loved by my wife, even and maybe especially after 30 years of marriage. For instance, I get inwardly irritated whenever my wife falls asleep on the couch next to me when we are winding down by watching TV at night. I KNOW she is tired after working all day. But I FEEL as though she doesn’t bother to stay awake with me by enjoying our quality time together. Am I just not a whiny baby!

So, I always need to remind myself that through my wife, God has given me a foretaste of my final and ultimate reality, which is to be with Jesus forever when he appears. I know that this is the deepest longing of my soul. At the present time though, this side of heaven, God gives me many glimpses of his glory, the closest of which is likely my marriage and friendship with my wife.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:07:56 +0000

Dr. Ben — I really love how you relate “Hollywood” news to the gospel. :)
I think the sad part is most women these days feel better about themselves when they know their husbands love/adore them. I know for me, when my hubs is caring and thoughtful, I feel happy and even empowered. But when he’s insensitive/selfish, I just feel like my life is going down the drain. It’s quite an emotional and even sad roller coaster.
I know I have to put my hope in Jesus and Jesus’ love alone but I admit, I can understand how Demi feels. Women just want to know they are loved.

By: Brian Karcher

Brian Karcher — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:23:23 +0000

“Ghost” is an all-time favorite of my wife and I also! It really is true that our soul finds rest only in God our Savior. Another Psalm expresses my soul condition these days. I used to want to be with God, now my soul “pants for God”! Without the love and grace of Jesus, we are lost in the sea of this world, even if we are a celebrity or have much money and power.

Psalm 42:1-6 “1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng. 5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and 6 my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon–from Mount Mizar.”