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My name is Yves Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
Today is Friday, May 24th and we will be reading Mark 10, 1-12.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Mark 10, 1-12.
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan.
The crowds gathered to him again and again, at his custom was he taught them.
Then the Pharisees came up and, in order to test him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?
He answered them, What did Moses command you?
They said, Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to put her away.
But Jesus said to him, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and will be joined with his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together let no one put astounder.
Then the house of the disciples asked him again about this matter.
And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
Today’s reading made me think about the time my brother and I went to this proclam at the library of a magician.
He had this puzzle thing that he all tangled up and connected and he couldn’t pull it apart.
It’s kind of like what Jesus said about marriage.
Jesus told them that God created man and woman to be joined together as man and wife and should not try to separate.
Some families today are twisted and turned, just like that puzzle at the library.
So don’t worry.
Even if your family has been pulled apart, God loves you just the same.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, dear Jesus, today I pray for our families.
Help our families to stay together the way you meant for it to be.
Amen.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back next week.
Scattering more flowers.
See ya!