I found this article thanks to a link on the cellar door and this quote caught my eye...
She ended up selling her engagement ring to pay for roof repairs and
discovering she was eligible for food stamps. Her ex-husband, meanwhile, was
holidaying with his new lover in Mexico. Hekker, once a role model for young
homemakers, is now rapidly becoming an icon for so-called 'silver divorcees',
older women who suddenly find themselves alone without skills and with a much
reduced income.
She said that in the 48 hours after her story appeared in
the New York Times she received more than 100 emails and phone calls from women
in similar situations all over America. 'The response has just been incredible.
I have touched a chord with so many people. I never knew there were so many who
had had the same experience,' she said.
It made me think if this verse from James 1 what kind of salt and light are we if we can't be bothered to protect those who have not protection? What kind of a better way can we show the world if the effects of our coversion can't be seen in how we live.....
James 2:16 and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
That's exactly what happened to my mother-in-law, and a friend. The men who bail on the wives of their youth are nothing less than wimpy men who believe that they have to be "happy." I predict that this will continue to be a problem with the hedonistic baby boomers.
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