Be Still And Know

Jeremiah 29:11 NLT “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen.” When relational disaster strikes, then trust in relationship at every level is most often lost. I have over the years walked with individuals who are experiencing the trauma of divorce. Here a once intimate friendship unravels and ends, often abruptly and at the instigation of one person in the relationship. While the legal process has been made simpler, cleaner and quicker, there emotional and mental anguish former partners, and in many cases, children feel is acute. Divorce is a recipe for pain. It is through our own relational history that we build a picture of the nature of the trust we can place in another person. The very word “love” is unquantifiable, a feeling rather more than a science. While we can identify objective acts that look like they are born of love, they may be from self-love rather than love fo