RE: [Fwd: Re: [TruthTalk]marriage, divorce, and remarriage.]

[ShieldsFamily]

John,   That’s why I asked some time ago for anyone’s opinion about “soul ties”.  I believe these are developed when we have affection for someone else, and especially if we are intimate with someone sexually.  Broken soul ties can leave us fragmented emotionally.  I surmise that this is one reason why homos/lesbians often seem a bit strange; they’ve been intimate with so many people that they seem like a shadow of themselves—kind of empty and vacant behind the eyes if you know what I mean.    My pilot son dated his (now) wife for 7 years, from high school through both of them attending different military Academies.  They married right after he graduated from the AF Academy in the lovely steel A-frame chapel there.  All that time they maintained their commitment to the Lord not to be sexually intimate, and they are now glad they kept that promise.  (It keeps things much less complicated, for one thing.) We have given our 12 & 14 yr olds the video and audiotapes of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”, which encourages teens NOT to date, but when the time is right to, instead, “court” with the intention of marriage.  It would surely prevent a lot of those “broken soul ties” that we encounter from broken hearts in the dating scene.   Izzy   Once the two are joined, they become one and were designed to stay one.  If God put them together, only God has the right to separate them. I am thinking that "the two shall become one" is as much a statement regarding the joining of heart and soul as a result of but not limited to physical intimacy.   My middle boy  -- Doc Smithson  --  has been going with the same awesome girl for 7 years.   Last year, he decided he should break up with her and perhaps find someone more "compatible."  This is a guy who probably has 160 or 170 IQ   --  and he's a dummy.   After 5 months or so,  he called me, almost in tears, telling me that he did not know what was wrong with him  --  that he thought of Reggie not just every day but every 5 minutes.    My response was thuserly:   "Son, this 'and the two shall become one flesh" thing has been at work in your (the two of you) lives for too long.   You are joined."   And they are getting married next May  (Pops  - that would be me -- is performing the service as I did with the youngest boy  AND I AM DEFINITELY BRAGGING).      Anyway.   Maybe that does not have anything to do with where you are going, but so far, I am with you.   a brother, John