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Over the past few weeks I've been reading through the Gospels in the morning before heading to work. I came across this passage recently and was really struck by it:

“They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘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 flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”” (Mark 10:4–12, NIV)

I had a conversation with myself (meaning, meditated on this passage) for several reasons.

Firstly, I've been divorced. It was not my choice or desire, but it happened. It devastated me - caught me totally off-guard. I gave my ex-wife and my children everything in the divorce. The house, my retirement, all the money in the bank, gave each one of my children a vehicle, and started over in an entirely new career. She moved north and I moved south. This was after 22 years of marriage.

When divorce happens, the mixing of two people together and the children who are often involved (three in our case), the result is, well, scrambled eggs. There is no way to put eggs back together after they've been scrambled. After a divorce, there is no way to put two people back together again the way they were before the marriage. The mixing of two distinct personalities and beings is too complex for that. The two become one, and when they are ripped apart by divorce, it is never a clean break. It's always an uneven tear. Always.

I was burned through and by it all, and have probably burned others because of my own "burntness" (if that's even a word).

I started thinking, "Well, this makes me scrambled eggs - and burnt!"

So what does Jesus do with burnt, scrambled eggs - like me?

What makes it even worse is that I was a pastor at the time. I know pastors are only human, it wasn't my desire and I couldn't stop it (but it doesn't mean that I was faultless), and others have had it happen - yada, yada, yada.

But the truth is everyone expects their spiritual leaders to be better and to do better. You can say that you understand when a pastor sins, but my experience is that most people don't. People put pastors on a pedestal, on another plane, whether they should or not. And we all have certain sins that a spiritual leader should NEVER have committed - adultery, excessive drugs or alcohol (having never done either is better), embezzled money, failed to leap tall buildings in a single bound, be faster than a locomotive (okay, I made the last two up).

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Beau

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