"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Monday, March 19, 2012

What The Church Needs To Understand About Divorce by Kristin Tennant

"People who are divorced need kindness and compassion, but they do not need the sympathy or pity that often stems from a belief that divorce is always bad -- that somehow people would be better off staying in diseased marriages they've tried without success to fix. Of course, there are people and churches who will always believe divorce is bad, but it's time for them to at least acknowledge that not everyone who has been divorced would agree.

Simply recognizing that would be a big step toward reducing the alienation many divorced people feel in churches. Here are a few other things I wish our churches would understand about both marriage and divorce -- perspectives that are important for them to grasp if they truly believe their primary mission is bringing all people closer to God."

Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-tennant/what-the-church-needs-to-_b_1316660.html

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