"These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too."
— Ravi Zacharias
I recently heard of a woman whose divorce had become final. Her response to her "liberation" was to trumpet it from various social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.
In response, some of her "friends" joined in congratulating her, as though she had just received a big job promotion and raise.
Is a divorce a reason for a fandango? Should its finalization be cause for celebration?
At the very least a divorce -any divorce- is an admission of failure. A relationship failed. A marriage died. Something is dead.
And people want to celebrate?
Do they celebrate the brokenness of lives now separated after saying "till death do us part?" Do they celebrate the inevitable hurt and feelings of rejection that children experience when their parents no longer live together? Do people really want to celebrate what must legally become to some extent and adversarial relationship regarding property, parental rights, and bank accounts?
There is no cause for celebration. A divorce is a death, and its decree a death announcement. The court case is a funeral. Picking up the pieces is for many, and especially children, is grief work.
None of those things are easy.
None of those things are reasons to celebrate.
Please understand if I don't congratulate you.
One can discern the demise of a culture and the denigration of humanity when people celebrate things that should cause them to weep instead.
I weep.
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