A little over a month ago here in the Houston area, a 10-year-old boy
shot his father who had just picked him up for his weekend visitation.
The mother of the boy claims the ex-husband molested both of their boys
repeatedly. Needless to say, the divorce between the parents was
extremely bitter. My gut instinct is that there was no abuse, but what
better way to destroy someone, in particular a man? Regardless of any
proof or not, he's considered guilty by most everyone.
But that is not the point of this post.
The man had his own house and a live-in girlfriend/common-law wife. Now,
there is no documentation at all, as is common in common-law situations.
The only "proof" the g/f has is that he signed a piece of paper for her
daughter and signed it with "step-father" as the relation, whence he
must be her "husband". Well, his parents are coming in to stay for a
while, and they're taking his house. A judge agrees with the parents and
has ordered the g/f out of the house. She wants control of his estate,
but the guy's mom was named as the executor of his will.
How much easier would it have been for them to go ahead and get married?
Then she wouldn't be out on her ... whatever appendage appears
appropriate to you. Why do we complicate things? Why do we assume we
know better, that whatever we can come up with, because it sounds good
to us, must be okay, and that there will be no consequences for the
decisions we make?
God has set up standards for us to live by, not to control us, not to
keep us from having fun, but to protect us. Yet, like impetuous
children, we can't think ahead five seconds to consider anything beyond
how we feel at the time. We, who have no experience and don't understand
everything (or much of anything), automatically know better and know
what's best for us. What we know is that we don't like to be told, "No",
or even, "Wait".
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