Family Foundation

Here I sit, feeling rather melancholy. I took my wife to the nephrologist yesterday, he is referring her to a surgeon for placement of a shunt so that she can begin dialysis. I've watched over the past seven years as her body has slowly deteriorated, but hoped that somehow the disease would miraculously reverse direction and once again she would be the vivacious, assertive, outgoing lady that I married. On the way home she asked me "did you think this was how it was going to be?" I knew what she was talking about but what was I supposed to say? When a man and a women commit to each other, it's not just words, it's real, it's life, it's reality. I look around at all the misfortune, all the chaos in society and it all comes down to one truth: the family is society's foundation. Without that familial foundation, society flounders. When society attempts to circumvent the process (allowing gay marriages etc.) the effects are catastrophic on all members of society. This fact has hit home lately as I've observed my wife's condition. Without the foundation and support of family, we as a society are lost.