This came to my attention after our Marriage Night this past Sunday night. We gathered together at Trinity to celebrate and strengthen our marriages. In France, they have begun a gathering of a different sort, a Divorce Fair. The fair’s organizer made this comment:
“For me, that crystalized that divorce has lost its stigma and is really a commonplace thing,” Gaumet told The Associated Press. “Lots of people going through divorces — and also people getting separated or who are widowed — are looking for information on how to bounce back and how to reconstruct.” “We have long had the Marriage Fair,” a massive annual trade fair in Paris catering to brides-to-be, “and I thought, ‘why not a fair for people going through separations?,'” said Gaumet, adding that some 4,000 people visited the event over the weekend. “That’s a real success for a first-time exhibition.” the rest is here…
In a world where everything has become disposable, it shouldn’t surprise us that divorce is a common life experience. However, this should not be so in the Church. The Bible shows marriage as an intimate and indissolvable bond which mirrors the inter-Trinitarian intimacy of God to a world that’s forgotten what love looks like. This is not to say that divorce is the unforgiveable sin. Rather, for those of us who are married, we should see the divorce culture as an opportunity for “let[ting our] light so shine before men, that they see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”(Matthew 5:16) These kinds of marriages don’t come without work. So, go home tonight and talk with your spouse. Agree to read a book together, go to a Christian marriage retreat, commit to praying together every night, etc. Find one way that you can grow in intimacy in your marriage and pray that God would use it to glorify Himself.
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