Page 51: Randy and Monica Zachary
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Page 51 of the unfolding is the story of Randy and Monica Zachary. |
| 0:04.9 | I get a phone call and it's Randy and he said, I'm done. |
| 0:09.6 | Don't want to be married to you anymore. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm letting you know that I am leaving and I have found somebody else. |
| 0:18.0 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:23.6 | Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:26.6 | Another page in the unfolding. Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:45.1 | Randy and Monica Zachary had been married and doing ministry for 10 years. |
| 0:49.6 | As a pastor and pastor's wife, they did what they had always done, put on a happy face and |
| 0:55.1 | pretend that everything was okay. But it was not okay. With every passing year, the weight of |
| 1:02.2 | their secrets got heavier. Alcoholism, deceit, and a chasm between them made it seem like |
| 1:08.5 | a healthy marriage was impossible. After 10 years in Christian |
| 1:12.8 | radio and youth ministry, Monica File for Divorce, we were hopeless as they come because of our |
| 1:19.2 | brokenness, but we faked it for a long time. Oh, man, I know for me, I faked it for the first 10 years |
| 1:26.8 | because that's all I knew. Because of my background, |
| 1:30.7 | I was so broken as a person. Can you describe your marriage what it was like in those 10 years? |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, what did it look like living it out day to day? And what was it about it that you knew |
| 1:42.6 | wasn't what God had for you and for your marriage? |
| 1:45.7 | Well, I think for both Randy and I, we wanted to be connected and we didn't know how to do that. |
| 1:54.4 | I was not taught or showed or even knew what being vulnerable means. I was told very early on, as a matter of fact, |
| 2:07.2 | the day before Randy and I got married by my mentor, she said, now that you're going into |
| 2:12.4 | ministry, here's my best piece of advice for you is that you fake it until you make it and you don't let |
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