One of the greatest blessings in this life is that of marriage, and the promises that define marriage are given from the very start—during the wedding ceremony.

One of those promises is for a man to cleave to his wife until death. A Biblical marriage is both a physical and spiritual union intended to last a lifetime—a lifetime of resolving differences and growing together in a loving relationship, whether in sickness or in health. As the man and woman grow into old age, they can face certain diseases and disabilities that test the vow to cleave unto death.

Who are your parents and how have they affected your life? Many people may know and have been raised by both of their parents, while others may have been raised only by one. Then there are some who might have lived a life apart from their biological parents, perhaps never having known them. Do you know your mother and father? What about your Father in heaven?

Elizabethkingia, “the mysterious infection that might be behind 17 deaths in Wisconsin has spread to a second state… The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) confirmed Thursday that an older adult from the western part of the state has died after contracting the obscure blood infection, which has sickened more than 50 in Wisconsin.

A former Russian foreign minister recently warned, “The East-West standoff over the Ukraine crisis has brought the threat of nuclear war in Europe closer than at any time since the 1980s” (Reuters, March 19, 2016). “Igor Ivanov, Russia’s foreign minister from 1998 to 2004 and now head of a Moscow-based think-tank founded by the Russian government” also stated, “We have less nuclear warheads, but the risk of them being used is growing’” (ibid.).

On Tuesday, March 22, an ISIS attack at the Brussels international airport and at a metro station killed or injured more than 330 people (Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2016).