As One

"Doctors have long known that stress hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine that are raised by grief can take a damaging toll on the body."

I wonder if there is a methodology of measuring such hormonal changes following the loss of a close family member, don't you? Then the next one:

"But there may be other forces at play as well. Research shows that in some cases, one person’s heartbeat can affect, even regulate, another’s, possibly acting as a type of life support."

An interesting concept to explore, isn't it? Brings new meaning to:

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2:24 KJV)

The full article is: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26980587/

Can it be that two hearts beat as one? That a husband and wife can be so close that the absence of one affects the heartbeat of the other? The Bible tells us that God's plan was one man, one wife:

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:3-6 KJV)

As we do today, the Pharisees asked about why God allowed divorce, knowing there was controversy in the answer. The controversy within man’s mind, not God’s:

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. (Matthew 19:7-8 KJV)

Imagine the closeness offered to a husband and wife when God is at the center of the marriage. Imagine also the loss when one dies. A heartbeat is missing.

How should we treat these missing heartbeats?

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27 KJV)

We know fatherless and widowed individuals. How pure is our religion?