A Good Family

The boys are all playing a game of Risk with their dad, that is one game I never seemed to give a rip about. I'll just leave that one up to the men. Today held something unusual for me. A friend who was getting a divorce asked me to go to court with her. I have never been inside a courtroom before, and I was a little nervous, actually I couldn't eat breakfast. I was worried that things would get dramactic, and I had no idea what to expect. What I didn't expect to happen was the tremendous sadness that I felt at seeing other people there for the same reason. I saw a mother ask for her teenage sons to be removed from the room so that they wouldn't hear their dad accuse her of doing drugs, being promiscuious, and abandoning them. Several times tears came to my eyes as I thought of where all these people had come from, and what was now happening to them. These people once loved each other, were raising a family together, and the enemy of the family got in there and destroyed what God had wrought. My friends proceeding was nothing at all compared to the previous mentioned, but it was still so sad to see the demise of a family. These situations are becoming the norm, and a good family is becoming rarer. I was overwhelmed by the amount of divorces that were probably proceeding all over the country today, not just my small town, and I thought about how grieved God must be to see the destruction of something that he had ordained. It is so so important to guard your heart in the area of your spouse, if you are not careful the same thing could happen to you. But by the grace of God, there go I.