A fifth grade teacher asked the children in her art class to draw pictures of what they want to be when they grow up. Sally drew an astronaut, Sue a doctor, Bruce a missionary. But Karen turned in a blank sheet of paper. "Isn't there something you want to be?" the teacher inquired. The child replied, "I want to be married, but I didn't know how to draw it." Sad, but isn't that true of our society today? Over 95 percent of us will marry at some point in our life. Yet nearly forty percent of us will divorce.
In 1890 there were nearly 10,000 divorces nationwide. Last year there were over 1,200,000! In Charlotte, North Carolina, last year there were more divorces than there were marriages. Ditto for Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. It is as if we've lost the blueprint for …
CSS Publishing, Sermons for Sundays after Pentecost, by Stephen M. Crotts