"The Lord God said: 'It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a suitable partner for him.'  So the Lord God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name.  The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.  So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.  The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man.  When he brought her to the man, the man said: 'This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man' this one has been taken.'  That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body." Genesis 2:18-24.

"Sing praise to the Lord, you faithful; give thanks to God's holy name.  For divine anger lasts but a moment; divine favor lasts a liftime.  At dusk weeping comes for the night; but dawn there is rejoicing." Psalms 30:5-6

"Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.  Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.  They said to him, 'Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.  Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?'  They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him.  Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.  But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, 'Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.'  Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.  And in response, they went away one by one beginning with the elders.  So he was left alone with the woman before him.  Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, 'Woman, where are they?  Has no condemned you?'  She replied, 'No one, sir.'  Then Jesus said, 'Neither do I condemn you.  Go, and from now on do not sin any more.' " John 8:1-11

"It was not you who choose me, but I who choose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.  This I command you: love one another." John 15:16-17

"We all know all things work for good, to them that love God, to them who are the call according to his purpose." Romans 8:28

"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.  Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.  Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.  Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them, for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret; but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is light.  Therefore, it says:        'Awake, O sleeper,          and arise from the dead,        and Christ will give you light.' " Ephesians 5:8-14