Thought for today - 12/11/2013

COMMITMENT REQUIRED IN MARRIAGE 
Jill Briscoe says that one of the gifts her parents gave their children was a commitment to one another that did not consider divorce an option. "Differences they had were kept between them and worked out in the context of the promises they made to each other and to God on their wedding day. There was no option out! As someone has said, when the doors on a marriage are shut and bolted and a fire breaks out, all your time and energy goes to putting out the flames!"
(from What My Parents Did Right, ed. By Gloria Gaither, StarSong Publishing, 1991, p. 33)