Happy Mothers Day, Karen. I am glad your day has gone well -- you deserve the best.
I was also thinking I just love your pastor and church. You have a good one there. Yes, his sermon was a universal message, one that is all too important and relevant in today's world -- and thus one from which everyone can take away something valuable for thought.
And yes, there are many who would feel the words point to their own hang-ups a bit too closely for comfort. I say that the words of the sermon do not convict these people but their own guilt does. Each of us knows, deep down, when we have transgressed.
If your ex decides to avoid your church after this -- i.e, he chooses to now scurry off into the darkness away from the light he feels to be revealing his sins before all -- then he will allow his aversion to a guilty conscience lead him further astray and to forgo the path to real growth. He would thus run away from who he has become and hide from his iniquities. Rather than learning from his mistakes, he will be all the more the loser.
It would be sad, but not at all surprising, should he run away.
It would also not be surprising if he were to heighten his attacks on you, Karen, as a means to divert attention away from himself. He's been doing this already, and I see no reason he wouldn't continue to do so.
