Hey, we're so glad you're here with us today. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, and today we're

continuing in an inspiring series when you're hoping for a miracle. Now, in this series, Pastor Rick

is guiding us through God's Word and showing us how to strengthen our faith and live with greater love, peace, patience,

and self-control, even when life feels hopeless.

Now, if you've been longing for a breakthrough, you're not going to want to miss this.

All right, everyone, let's get right to Rick with part one of a message called,

When a Marriage has ended.

This week, I want us to look at divorce.

When a marriage has ended.

You know, in the 1960s, in 1967, there were a couple of very well-known psychiatrists

who did a study that is now quite famous,

trying to correlate the connection between stress and illness.

And they were trying to find out if there really was a connection

between severe stress in your life and major illness.

Thomas Holmes, Richard Rock, conducted this study of 5,000 medical patients.

And as a result, they developed a scale of 43 common stressful events.

And these are things that people go through in life, and they gave them numbers based

on this study from 1 to 100, one being no stress, and 100 being, you know, the most stressful

thing you could do in life. And they discovered

that anybody with over 300 points of stress was at risk of developing a major illness during

that year. Now, what was interesting to me was that the most stressful event in life, they

concluded, is the death of a spouse. That is the most stressful thing you can

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