Divorce

To my friends considering divorce, please also consider what I have to say. At the risk of sounding like a fanatic (ha, ha, you all know that I am anyway) divorce is a tool of the devil. If he can tear apart one couple, he's got a great opportunity to dig his claws into your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren, and the list could go on and on.

One set of my grandparents were divorced. As I look at the big picture of pain and destruction that has gone on from that point to now effect my children, and possibly theirs, I weep. Every family function is a reminder of who's missing, and of family reunions that will never take place.

I think this is why there is so much loneliness in the world today. The destruction satan has caused in the family unit has deadened our ability to connect with one another as human beings. Every broken bond turns our attentions ever inward until the humanity of those around us doesn't even register.

I don't think any one of us enters into our marriage thinking it will be all honey and rose petals but the magnitude of that relationship is hard to comprehend until your in it. If you talk to a couple that have been together 50+ years, they'll say they didn't just have bad days, they had bad years, but those were the times their love and trust grew the most. If you ask someone who spent this last memorial day placing flowers on a grave, they'll tell you the things that irritated them the most are the ones they remember fondly today.

Think back to your wedding day and replay those vows in your head. Love is not a feeling, it is a responsibility, to your children, to your spouse, and to your God. Cling to God and cling to those vows.