Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: divorce

On divorce and remarriage for Christians, part 3: The full freedom to remarry

I believe that divorced Christians are always free to remarry. I explain why:

4 October 2022
On divorce and remarriage for Christians, part 2: The four As of divorce

I believe addiction, abuse, and abandonment are grounds for divorce in God’s eyes just as much as adultery is. Here’s why.

27 September 2022
On divorce and remarriage for Christians, part 1: Introduction and background

Divorce is a sin to us Christians. Remarriage isn’t always embraced. I start a three-part series on what I’ve come to believe on these subjects.

20 September 2022
Memories from before my family came apart

Photographs and memories from my family before it came apart.

4 November 2020
When your wife divorces you

Some advice from experience on what to do should your wife decide the marriage is over.

22 May 2020
“You are five times the father I ever was,” my dad said to me

I wanted to live with my sons every day of their childhoods, but the divorce ended that for good. I reflect here on how I grieve that loss even now that my sons are grown up.

16 March 2018
Memories lost, memories created, memories kept

I don’t dwell much on memories of my first marriage, which was destructive to all of us. But a few photographs of me with my sons there remind me that there were good times. And then after the divorce, I focused on building good memories.

5 June 2017
Adjusting to the changes as court-ordered parenting time ends

On my youngest son turning 18 and the changes this brings in both of our lives.

24 April 2017
Goodbye, Rick, sort of

Down the Road is on hiatus. New posts resume on Monday! Here’s one last rerun, one that’s special to me. I’m happy to run it again because the first time around (July of 2008) this blog was barely a year old and had few readers. My brother and I didn’t see eye to eye on […]

23 September 2016
Captured: Contemplating the abandoned National Road

I can hardly believe that my old friend Michael and I made this trip nine years ago along the abandoned National Road (US 40) in Illinois. I wrote about the trip on my old static-HTML site here. It looks like I won’t get any road trips in this summer. I sometimes feel a little bummed about […]

19 August 2016
Driving and Singing: Paul McCartney, “Too Much Rain”

Friday mornings of late I’ve been sharing songs I love to sing and telling stories about their place in my life. I love to sing! But as every song ends, so does this series, today. 2005 might well have been the hardest year of my life. My wife was divorcing me, I got to see my […]

26 February 2016
How 25 cents changed my life

It was a garage-sale find. It cost a quarter. It changed my life. The summer I turned 9, my brother and I took our first annual summer trip to visit our grandparents at their home on a lake in southwest Michigan. We spent a couple weeks with them, fishing and drinking pop and watching late-night TV. We […]

21 August 2015