Say it ain’t so, Al and Tipper

Here’s what this post is not about.  It is not about politics, global warming, stolen elections or inventing the internet. It is not about you.
 
Conversation about divorce, with real names attached, easily degrades into arm chair analysis about the particulars, his fault or hers, and what really happened. Al and Tipper Gore’s divorce is about real people, but unless you know a lot more than I know, let’s not analyze the particulars.
 
Conversation about divorce, any conversation about divorce, is instantly personal. Who among us has not been touched, probably hurt, by divorce? Perhaps our own, but certainly within the circle of close family and friends.  It is no secret that Scripture does not view divorce in a positive light. At best divorce is understood to be given by God because of the hardness of our hearts (Mark 10:1-9).  Many who read this post, LPC folks and others, know divorce all too well, its pain, but maybe also, the painful grace that it was during a particularly graceless season of life and certainly God’s grace in its aftermath, no matter what its circumstances. But this is not about your divorce or your friend’s divorce, the details and particulars, the justification or not.
 
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