Love Never Fails: God's Story of Restoring a Broken Marriage to Serve His Kingdom Purpose

By Daniel Tiburcio and Dolores Tiburcio

Love Never Fails is a powerful testimony of God healing a broken marriage. His Word comes alive as you read about this couples recovery journey. God transforms them into servant leaders in Celebrate Recovery and Marriage Ministry!

Daniel and Dolores meet in junior high school, then “go steady” in the 50s. Eventually they marry and have two beautiful children. As their young married lives unfold, dysfunction and pain raise their ugly heads in the form of alcoholism and codependency.The years pass, kid leave home, and their empty nest reveals resentment and a slow fade of the love they once had for one another. Years of separation turn into divorce.

Dolores reaches out to her church for comfort and Daniel continues his party life and addiction. However, God has a plan and his timing is always perfect. When Daniel hits bottom, and hears God`s voice- he shows up at church and begins a miraculous recovery journey! The next miracle happens when God restores their marriage union at their home church. Their wedding party consists of Family! their grown kids, grandkids, great grandson, and many more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664219236

Daniel Tiburcio

DANIEL & DOLORES TIBURCIO married in Feb 1962, divorced, then remarried in 2002! They were “40 years in the desert, now they are in the Promised land!” They have two children, 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Daniel retired from Exxon Oil refinery, Benicia, CA in 1999. Dolores retired as Recycling Proram Manager at Travis Air Force base, CA in 2013. Both serve on the Celebrate Recovery (CR) Leadership Team at First Christian Church in Napa, CA. They launched CR at their home church in Vallejo, CA in 2007 and have served CR for over 14 years. They love retirement - spending fun times with Family & Friends, traveling, cruising and glamping in their comfy travel trailer.

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LOVE

NEVER

FAILS

God’s story of Restoring a Broken Marriage

to Serve His Kingdom Purpose

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DANIEL AND DOLORES TIBURCIO

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Copyright © 2021 Daniel and Dolores Tiburcio.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 02/16/2021

Contents

Preface

Daniel’s Childhood

Daniel Serves in The U.S. Army:

Functional Addiction In Our Family

Painful Years of Separation

Dolores’ Childhood

Daniel & Dolores’ Teen Years

Our First Marriage, The Ups And Downs

The Empty Nest Period

A Divine Power Speaks

Dolores Begins the Transformation Process

Daniels’ Eyes are Opened!

Divorce is Painful

Danny Hits Bottom!

Reconciliation

Second Marriage

Sobriety, Then Recovery

A Prophetic Word

God Calls Us to Celebrate Recovery!

Refired, Not Retired

An Intentional Marriage

The Journey Continues

Celebrate Recovery Gets Relaunched at The Hill!

Marriage Ministry

New Life

Shelter from the Storm!

Conclusion

Preface

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God has never let me let go of my dreams One day a scripture popped up on Celebrate Recovery’s FB page that touched my heart, inspired me and pushed me forward! You see we needed to get busy and finish this book! For the past year hubby Daniel and I had been turning our original Celebrate Recovery Testimony into a book. But it was only about 70 per cent complete! I took the lead since I love to write and I have good organizational skills. However, for months I had been letting ministry, family, camping, traveling get in the way. I suppose I needed a push from God. The following scripture made me stop and think girl you and Danny ain’t gonna live forever, so you better get busy and finish your book! God’s Word says –

"Write down for the coming generation what the Lord

has done, so that people not yet born will praise Him"

Psalms 102:18

Wow! I suddenly realized that -no matter what it takes, we needed to tell our story, not just for our family, but for all those reading this book. We love to give others HOPE! Twenty years ago God begin to transform our lives and our broken marriage. So the way we want to PRAISE and GLORIFY Him is by sharing HOW His divine intervention took our resentful and hardened hearts and turned us into grateful & joyful servants by giving us a second chance at marriage! We want to share how God’s Word comes alive as He demonstrates in our testimony how:

His LOVE NEVER FAILS. It always protects, always

trusts, always hopes and always perseveres.

(1 Cor 13:7-8).

This is why we chose "Love Never Fails" for the title of our book. The other reason that this title means so much to us is remembering that Sunday, July 7, 2002 when our church Pastor Scott used our testimony of marriage restoration in his message to our entire congregation at Church on The Hill! We married each other for the second time the day before his message which he titled Love Never Fails. So right about now, you may be asking why did they get divorced and remarry? Well it’s a long story of pain, redemption, recovery, perseverance, and freedom! But mostly what we consider a miracle from God! You may have heard our testimony at a Celebrate Recovery Group meeting in Northern California, but now you get to hear the whole story! You will see that we use the same format as we do when giving our testimony; i.e., we each take turns telling our side of the story.

We will share with you some of the PEARLS or lessons learned as we walked through our recovery journey holding God’s hand! Here is our story:

Daniel’s Childhood

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Daniel: My name is Daniel and I’m a grateful believer in Jesus Christ and I’m recovering from alcoholism and anger. My Dad, Daniel J. Tiburcio, was born in 1910 in the Philippine Islands and emigrated to California in 1926. My Mom was born in 1923, White Sands, New Mexico.