quick as we are to speak of the damage inflicted by divorce in secular life, do we act in the spiritual life as if the covenant with God is only a temporary arrangement, lasting as long as we find it agreeable? Are we still immature children who have never been faced with a crucial and finally binding life-choice? Shall we never understand that it is this very ultimate, freely given faithfulness which cannot be shaken by the hardness of everyday life, nor by aridity, nor even, perhaps, by our being far from God, that constitutes the essence of Christianity?
