Archive for January 9th, 2010

The Family in Society

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

All the family a few years ago.

Our family members.

I think I would not receive much argument when making the statement that family is probably the most important component of society as a whole. I am very grateful for my wife and for our children, their spouses, and the grandchildren that have come into our lives. We are very proud of our family and the many good things they do. Certainly we are far from perfect but we try to do the best we know how in every circumstance. We have family members living away in another city, in another state, and in another country. We don’t have an opportunity to be all together at the same place at the same time very often any more. These were taken the last time we were all together at our family home all at the same time. We now have five more grandchildren and another son-in-law who are not in this photo, and two more grandchildren that will be born in 2010. We hope that we are all contributing members of society, being givers as well as takers of the blessings shared by our friends and neighbors.