“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:9). According to a seventy-year study, divorce is comparable to two packs of cigarettes a day. The study found that those divorced had a 40% greater risk of "premature death" than those who were steadily married. Another recent study claims that divorce can actually increase your chances of terminal cancer! And divorced men were also found to be twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease than their married counter-parts. An interesting survey was taken of 3,500 couples whose marriages were in trouble: of those who chose to stay together despite the fact that they had rated their marriages as “very unhappy,” 86% rated those same marriages as “very happy” or “quite happy” five years later. Yet so many people today are willing to give up on their marriages without any effort to try and communicate and resolve their problems. Communication is the only means for resolving conflicts in a marriage. Refusing to deal with the problems in your marriage or walking away from them will not make you happy. It only presents you with a new set of problems that are often very much worse. Don’t give up on that relationship. Be prepared to talk and communicate with your spouse. Be prepared to back down and humble yourself. Be prepared to forgive and to ask forgiveness when you are wrong. The happiness you seek is not found somewhere else, but it is the reward of all the time and energy and effort that you are willing to invest to make your marriage work. Morris Hull Home Life Ministries Please consider sharing this posting on Facebook if you have found it to be helpful. "Like" the Home Life Ministries Facebook page to receive these daily updates in your Facebook News Feed. Check out our websites at hlm.org and CharacterJournal.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:10:00 +0000