It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a miting of divorcement:
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeh adultery (Matthew 5:31-32).
We are told that in those days divorces were granted by the rabbinical law on the most trifling grounds. Married people who were not getting on together as well as they would have liked, were prone to run away from that problem by obtaining an easy dissolution. Now we understand that no permanent happiness can be obtained in this way. As long as you are running away from your problem, you will continue to meet it in a new guise at every turn in the road.
Just as in running from one business position to another, without first having brought about a charge in consciousness, we find ourselves but repeating the old conditions in a slightly different form, so, as a rule, people who divorce freely are apt to finish up as dissatisfied as they began. The general rule in Truth is, fight out your problem where you are, with prayer.
The general rule is still good for all conditions in life: Do not try to divorce or amputate the disharmony, but let it dissolve away of itself under God’s guidance.
In our lives, let us always seek to supplant disharmony in our environment with tolerance, patience, love and grace within. Walking away from disharmony allows the problem to fester and grow. Walking with someone through disharmony allows the problem to dissolve in mutual commitment and love. This, of course requires the efforts of all parties.
When the affected parties can not agree to walk through disharmony, both are likely to live with it in one form or another. So, let us face disharmony with God’s truth and open ourselves to God’s work through us to replace disharmony with peace.
In harmony,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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