Disclosure: Rick's Story and Hope for Unfaithful Spouses

I’ve been praying for Governor Spitzer this week. How well I know the trauma of painful disclosures. For those of us who have recovered from this sort of crisis, Spitzer’s and other public discoveries remind us so vividly of what we’ve overcome and what we’ve learned.

My first emotion, when I saw the picture of the Spitzers at the press conference, was sadness. I could remember the humiliation both Stephanie and I felt at what we were facing in the beginning. Then I remembered that alm...