"If one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
The apostles simply didn't get. No matter
how many times Jesus told them that the kingdom he was restoring was not the
old military and nationalist kingdom that the people wanted, but a kingdom in
which humans reflected God's forgiving love, they never got the point.
What other kind of kingdom was there
besides one like David and Solomon ran? OK, Jesus was David or Solomon or maybe
even someone better.
West Bengal, August 29, 2012: When Akash Mukherjee wrote his first check recently, his hand trembled.
It was not just the presence of Sister Mary Prema, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity (MC), and his parents that made the 10-year-old nervous.
Thegrimpicturepresented bydivorcestatistics.
Wearetoldthatduring thelastthreeyearsthedivorceratein theU.Shasgoneabove43%,although
itisstilllessthanthatin
Russia(65%),Sweden(63%),U.K(49%)andAustralia(49%).In 1998therewere19.4milliondivorcedadultsintheU.S.A. Each
year2.5millionmorecouplesgetdivorced. Agreaternumber ofdivorcesoccurwithintheChristianchurchesthanin marriagesmadeoutsidethechurch.
AnABCbroadcastreports
thatthedivorcerateinthe"BibleBelt"is50%higherthanin other
areasofthecountry.
Thisaffects the
livesofonemillionnew
childreneveryyear,84%ofwhomliveinsingleparenthomes. Statisticsforthe U.S.predictthepossibilityof40%to50%of
marriagesendingindivorceifcurrenttrendscontinue.
People
between theagesof25and39account for60%ofalldivorces.
More peopleareintheir2ndmarriage than1st(www. dicorcenter.com).With divorce being so
common
today, nearlyhalfofallmarriagesendindivorce.