Bergsma’s [book] ... for an adult child of divorce ... is like life-giving water for a parched soul. For me, it offers a healing lens to view marriage, not through the brokenness I witnessed growing up, but through the understanding of God’s original design as revealed in His Word. In reading this book, I found not only clarity, but also hope...

In these recent days, I have been in Rome for Youth Jubilee events as part of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. Since 2019, I have come to Rome on pilgrimage once a year, but this year I was compelled to time my trip for the Youth Jubilee for a special reason: it was precisely in our childhood that our parents’ divorce affected us (ontologically, if not also chronologically).

Temperament is the science of how we tend to react. Some people tend to react quickly and intensely. Others react slowly and not intensely. For some people, their reactions are long-lived; others easily let go. Some forgive and forget; others hold on for decades. Some love to immediately take charge, while others just want to fit in and go with the flow. These temperament differences impact (but need not determine) our emotional lives, relationships and our spiritual lives.

I went to my first Legion of Mary meeting as a freshman in college... I loved it. It was like a perfect little home comprised of all these people who were unrelated to each other but who had a common purpose...I only got to be in the Legion of Mary for a few months; I couldn't return to college for my sophomore year due to my parents’ divorce causing utter chaos.