"What God has joined together, no human being must separate."
When a man and a woman come together to marry and have children, it is an earthly reflection and image of the life of God -the community of persons in the Trinity. Married life is also an expression of God's relationship with all of humankind. In the creation story, God reveals his communitarian life only when he creates man: "Let us make man in our image."
It is in this context that we must understand Jesus' teaching on divorce and why he places such an emphasis on not breaking the marriage bond. We can only show our love for God by loving other people. When we fail to do so, we fail to be that reflection and image of God's own life.
Jesus gives us the key to remaining in loving relationship through the example of a child. Children are open and receptive. They have a desire to be loved and thus a desire to love in return. If we always retain this openness and receptivity, if we keep alive the desire to be loved and to love in return, then we have - for us and for others - the reign of God.
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