Bree,

Sounds like you've picked a good one. I'll be looking for it, dripping with real life juices. My oldest son is divorced, too. Most folks get married and fly off together to Hawaii on their honeymoon. Matthew and Dawn got divorced, then flew off to Hawaii together. How do you figure that?

Both seem to be doing better now with the new partners than they did when they were married to each other. I pray for both of them, and their new partners, every day. When my ex-daughter-in-law needs some "Mom-ing", she calls up my wife for it still. Sorry they couldn't make a go of it, but we still love them both. Dawn was engaged to one soldier there on a base on Oahu, then married another one within three days time. Looks like he's got enough stability for both of them. Matthew is currently with a lady who also had gone through a divorce. I think both of them are "altar shy" because of their painful first marriages.

Life's tough. I am most blessed to be in love with the woman I am married to, and to believe the teachings of the church I am a pastor of. I know of others who are not so fortunate.

One of my best friends wife left him when he was the principal of a Christian high school where I was working. He waited for her for seven years, hoping she would reconsider. Finally, he remarried. Looks like the second marriage is a good one for both of them. Curiously, he lived in Hawaii, and married one of my favorite summer school professors in California--and I never even introduced them, or knew they knew each other! Now he's the principal of a new grade school that just put in an eight million dollar plant, and last I heard she was the acting president of one of our church's colleges. Sort of a "power couple" in that small community.

I sent him a lyric I had written shortly after he remarried. It was about a man who had lost his wife in death and was in the proces of letting go of her memory and moving on with his life. My friend related it to his relationship with his ex. He wrote, "It seems strange to bury someone who is still alive."

The Bible says God hates divorce. The reason is simple enough: He loves people, and doesn't like to see them hurting.

I'll be looking for your lyric when you get it ready for posting.

Skip

Last edited by Skip Johnson; 04/29/07 01:18 AM.