Non-commital people say to each other,
“I love you,” but what they really mean is,
“I want to be with you today. A better opportunity may open up tomorrow, and if so,
I’ll take it.” This is, perhaps, not surprising. Dating apps have made meeting new people fairly easy (depending on one’s location),
so why not take advantage?
Psychology Today- May, 8, 2020
So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,”
he said, “and then I will come with you.”
“Go back,” Elijah replied.
“What have I done to you?”
So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate.
Then he set out to follow Elijah and
became his servant.
1 Kings 19:19-21 New International Version (NIV)
NO EXIT STRATEGY
…,“Go back each of you to your mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord grant that you may find security, each of you in the house of your husband.”
Then she kissed them, and they wept aloud.
Ruth 1:8-9 (NIV)
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,
and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die
I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her,
she stopped urging her.
Ruth 1:16-18 (NIV)