So Rebecca left on Tuesday to begin her trek towards The Gambia. This is her second stint with the Peace Corps, her first was in Namibia, Africa. She will be sorely missed! I'm hoping to sometime visit her, maybe to use my first chunk of vacation days that I get, to make a trip there, or else later. I'm very jealous of her experiences there, but we all have the work we feel we're called to. Someday I will either learn to live with that yearning, or I'll have succumbed to it and be there!
Matthew 19:3-12 : Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?" "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." "Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?" Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery." The disciples said to him, "If this is the situation between a husba...