#73. Getting caught off guard by divorce.

I’m married and if you are too then statistically speaking, one of us is going to get a divorce. I’m not writing that to be sensational or repetitive, as I’ve written a long divorce post before on my other blog, but I just want to say that it’s a big deal. And I don’t know if we Christians do a very good job of treating it as such. Look at it this way, if 1 out of every 2 neighbors you had on your street got mauled by a bear, would you be careful about bears? Would you buy books on how to keep your house safe from bears? Would you carry a gun and bear spray if there were in fact such a thing as bear spray? Probably, but when it comes to divorce we don’t do any equivalent things and the rates are about as high as that bear scenario. When was the last time you and your wife went to a counselor for just a tune up? What was the last book the two of you read together to strengthen your marriage? How many dates a month do you go on if you have kids? I fail at most of those things, so please don’t read finger pointing. The finger is pointed at me. I just think it’s something we should think about and change in our generation. What if we were the generation that ended divorce?