What is mine is mine!

Read a piece of news some time back in BBC News with this picture.

The story was told that a married couple in Cambodia who decided to go their separate ways agreed to divide their home and its contents - by sawing the house in half.

They really mean it! The wife keeps the half that is standing, while the husband has carried off bits and pieces of the home to put them up in a nearby field.

Village chief Vorng Morn said that the pair did not separate over 'anything big' - the husband accused his wife of not caring for him when he became ill recently.

Have they forgotten their wedding vows? Or they did not mean it when they said "I do" to love, honor, cherish and protect her/him, forsaking all others and holding only unto her/him?" Or the promise to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer was talk only?

The Bible is full of beautiful lines and verses which can help express joy and love at wedding. I love this one especially -

Song of Solomon 8:6

"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.
If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned."



(Captured this moment of the couple in Vietnam)