Divorce

C.S. Lewis wrote a great story called the Great Divorce. It is a tale about hell and heaven, and most importantly how we divorce ourselves from God. I love C. S. Lewis, (check out a poem I wrote about this). I have over the past couple of months been thinking a lot about this book and how we divorce ourselves from God. But there are a lot of other things that we divorce. We divorce each other. We divorce: religion from government, spirit from body, sex from marriage, and truth from reality.

Divorce (according to dictionary.com) is a total separation; disunion: a divorce between thought and action. Its kind of like saying one thing and doing another. But the truth always is our actions speak a hell of a lot louder than any word we can utter. The saying 'Sticks and Stones my break my bones, but words can never hurt me' sounds nice but in a way is very far from the truth. Sticks and Stones do break bones, words can hurt too (I'm not saying they don't), yet what you do to someone speaks louder, shouts louder, than anything you can scream.

What I wonder is why do we think it is OK to divorce something that really belongs together? Take sex. (Yes I'm going there, and your going to have to deal with it for four weeks. Liberti is doing a Mini-Series on Sex in the Bible.) Too often we feel we can just do whatever we want and not have to worry about it, its just sex. Right? The problem is that its not just sex. Its never just sex. Its like shooting a bazooka and calling it a Nerf gun. Nerf guns don't really hurt. Bazookas hurt a whole lot (and can kill you). Maybe we need to start really thinking about what we do, say, think. Are we shooting a bazooka? Are we hurting the people around us?