Moore explained that the “roller coaster” she has to avoid is caused by her husband’s PTSD. “My husband could not, because of his PTSD, could not get out of that garage where the fire was,” she said. “It was so early. He was just less than 2, so he couldn’t escape it.”
“He just lived so much of his life back in that nightmare,” said Moore, “night terrors, everything you can imagine. In order to have my sanity, I had to step out of the garage, where I’m like, ‘I’m in the driveway, I’m right here—I cannot ride that ride with you.’ I tried and tried and tried,” but Moore conveyed that when she did, she was swept up in the nightmare with him. “And so both of us doing that—not gonna work,” she said.
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Moore encouraged a woman whose husband is spiritually absent to ponder “what good might the Lord do for you…if you were just having to rely on the fact that [your husband] could see Jesus at work. What if this is a chance to be able to minister to some other women whose husbands couldn’t care less about the Lord?” she asked.
Moore’s last exhortation was to pray. “Pray hard. Y’all,” she said, “I believe in the power of prayer. And you know…if you’re getting the idea Keith is a deacon, he’s not. But he is mine. He is mine.”
“Life’s hard,” Moore concluded, “but God’s faithful.”
