Why do those words strike such a feeling of pride, joy, happiness within me? I experienced it and thought nothing of it when I first began reading Letters from Thailand shortly after the last December's tsunami. Today I experienced it again when I came across Postcard from London. It's not limited to Bruderhof, either. Any time I learn of a community of believers pulling themselves together and donating souls to places of need, oftentimes for long-term committments.
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...