Broken Homes and Broken Lives -- The Tragedy of Divorce and the Need to Pray for Our Married Couples

Over forty years ago the supremely talented country musician Roger Miller had a powerfully sad but true song about divorce. Regretfully, it is just as starkly truthful now as it was when Lyndon Baines Johnson was President of the United States.

The lyrics of "Husbands and Wives" are:

Two broken hearts lonely looking like
houses where nobody lives.
Two people each having so much pride
inside
Neither side forgives.

The angry words spoken in haste,
Such a waste of two lives,
It's my belief,
Pride is the chief cause in the decline
in the number of husbands and wives.

A woman and a man, a man and a woman;
Some can and some can't
And some can't.

You can hear the late great Miller sing his universal and timeless lament on YOU TUBE at ROGER MILLER SINGS "Husbands and Wives"

Sadly, in certain situations, sometimes divorce is necessary. But everything should be done to save a marriage when there is the slightest possibility it can be saved, especially where there are children involved.

With preventive medicine, like prayer, scripture reading, church going, communicating and counseling, most marriages can stay healthy. But it takes work. You must inoculate yourselves and help guard each other tenderly from the stresses and evils of this world, many of which seek to destroy God's great gift of marriage.

Even when a marriage has gone off the road into the ditch, it can still be saved. But both partners must come back to their marriage vows and seek God's help together. Pastors can help a couple find God's help, but the couple must agree to seek God and to seek to find their first love for each other again.

Woe to the man or woman who who tempts or seduces a married woman or man, who comes between a husband and wife, who helps break a marriage covenant ordained by God Almighty. A special place in hell is reserved for the man or woman who breaks up one of God's marriages and injures one of God's families.

Pray for all the couples you know. There is a great attack on marriage in the United States of America. We must defend our married couples with our love, our support and our prayers.