Just as we must act on Scripture’s instruction to forgive, we should also consider the great cost of failing to do so.

Divorce often looks like a “quick fix” for an unpleasant situation, but it is usually far more painful than advertised.

Writer Pat Conroy, after telling his three daughters that he and his wife were divorcing, said he felt like he had “doused my entire family with gasoline and struck a match.” The painful effects resulting from such stress and guilt are not just a temporary problem.

One reason divorce has become so common today is the advent of “no‐fault” divorce laws, first introduced in California in 1969. Over the following fifteen years, every state in America adopted some form of no‐fault legislation.