A Pilgrim's Journal

For some reason, I idly wondered a silly thought: why is it called a "Get"? Shouldn't it be called a "Put"?

There is no special meaning to the word "Get" that I know of. One interesting idea, from the above wikipedia article, is that the two letters that spell the word in Hebrew, gimel and tet are "the only letters of the Hebrew alphabet which cannot make a word together." Interesting way to look at divorce!

Using the plain English meaning of the word "get," it got me thinking that perhaps we have our notions of love and relationships backwards.

After all:

	I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
	support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,
	how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
	   Acts 20:35

To really "get" a happy marriage, you have to give. You need to try to put out more love than you receive. And if you do, you end up with blessings that just don't come from being selfish.

Sacrifice is love in action.

When I look at it this way, perhaps it is not so strange to think of divorce as a "Get." For if we "put" ourselves into our relationships, we gain a home. But if we "get" only, we end up alone.

There you go. A silly word play for a silly holiday. Happy Valentine's Day! Go do some putting!