Welcome to enjoying every day life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching us how we can find healing for

our souls. There are moments in life that leave our souls wounded. The pain from

these wounds can hurt so deep that we can't let them go and move on. Instead we

become paralyzed in our pain, stuck and hurting. But there is hope. Today Joyce

draws from her own history of abuse to share how Christ redeeming love can heal

our wounds and bring true joy to our life. Now here's Joyce with today's

teaching. What is a wounded soul? Well first of all I want to start by telling

you a little story about me and albacarkey where we happen to be today. 56

years ago I was abandoned by my first husband in this town in albacarkey

New Mexico. I was sexually abused by my father for many years. Always really felt

like nobody would ever want me or love me and so the first young man that paid

any attention to me. I grabbed him up because I thought I'd never have anybody. I

knew down deep inside it wasn't right when I did it but desperate people do

desperate things and desperate people do stupid things. Amen. So we got married. I

was 18. I think he was 19 and he was a used car salesman and back then they

would pay people to like if somebody here wanted a certain kind of car and there

was one of them in St. Louis or wherever the car dealership here would pay

somebody from there to drive the car here and so that was part of how he made

money was he would drive cars to places. Well the plan was he was going to drive

that car here and then he was going to work at the car lot and I was going to

get a job and we were going to live happily ever after. So we checked into a

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