James 5:12 includes the “let your ‘yes’ be yes and your ‘no’ be no”. It seems our president, representing our nation to the world, is living out that our “yes” is literally not worth the paper it is written on. Our nation made an agreement, the JCPOA. All parties have lived up to that agreement. Our nation has just abandoned that agreement. The rest of the world has more evidence that the United States cannot be trusted to live up to an agreement. Our kids are being thrust into a world where their country is untrustworthy. How should they live?

Consider the PCA. They claim the Scripture as their authority. Challenge them on that, they go silent. Can they be trusted when they don’t come to the table?

Consider your dad. He made an agreement with us about our marriage. He abandoned that agreement and turns to the Talmud before the Scripture for his rationalization. Can he be trusted? Unlike the institutions of government or religion, your dad is a man. The Lord offers His mercy to men, as He has done with me. Perhaps reconciliation with your dad could happen, but first he must lower the wall between us.

Consider you. We had an agreement. The verbal included “for better or worse” and “till death do us part”. I suggest that is consistent with the Scripture. While I have failed you in many ways, I have not failed in my commitment to you, and you alone, as my wife. The Lord demands of us reconciliation. I’m ready. You have to lower the barrier. You have to make your yes be yes. You have an opportunity to show our kids how to live out reconciliation. I will continue to point them to this. Shall we together point them to the same source and example by living it?

Dorothy-Jane, I love you!