It's important to note that my story doesn't end with the affair. It ends with the cross.

God's story? Your life. Unfolding short stories.

Sometimes we're so deep into a thing that is hurting us that we need God to stop us in our tracks.

Alicia Barr remembers sitting at a women's conference. She was listening to Annie F. Downs and kind of

checking out a bit. And then Annie says that she believes the Holy Spirit was speaking through her.

And Alicia's life was about to radically change. Hello, my name is

Alicia Barr and I am just a small town girl with a big story to tell. Listen, y'all, I was raised right

on God, Garth, and straight, but unfortunately I have not always lived right. About a decade ago, I fell into

an affair with a man 30 years older than me, and it lasted for four years. Before I proceed

to share my story, I want you to know that I am not a victim, so please don't frame me in that

perspective. I take full ownership of the choices I made,

the people I hurt and the pain I caused. And I also want to tell you that I am committing

to telling you the truth because I feel like and believe that healing begins with the truth.

And so I'm going to give you the real, raw,

and unfiltered version of my story. And the truth is that the first two years of this affair

were the most exciting and fun years of my life. This man took me to the moon and showed me

all the stars, even after I had been married for eight years. But two years

in, I hit rock bottom, and I'll never forget the moment. I was on my bedroom floor, sitting

on my knees. I'm not sure if I was crying at or to God, screaming, wanting him to just take my life for me. I wanted to die. Because here's the deal,

as I knew right from wrong, I grew up in church, but there was no desirable solution. I didn't

want to lose the man that held my whole world in his hands, no more than I wanted to be a secret

for the rest of my life. By two years in,

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