When assessing the maladies that ail our society, the cornerstone that is the family is turning to dust. The demise of the cornerstone is due to crumbling fathers, and parents in general. A society is built of families, a structure of micro-cultures that will only be as successful as each individual brick.
As bad eggs only yield stinky omelets, so the decay in families will mean a decaying society. Apart from the grace of God, broken homes simply produce broken people and communities that come unglued. We wring our hands over statistics on drug use and teen suicide. We cry out for protection from mass shooters and mourn over human trafficking. Who will deliver us from this imbroglio? There is no hope in the band-aid of the state. Simple schooling devoid of Christianity will not rescue us. More money in the state budget is to no avail. Our only hope is Christ in families. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who labor, labor in vain.
It is far too easy to take fathers and mothers for granted. It is equally too easy to fail in appreciating our children. As a fish knows nothing other than the water it lives in, as we also presume on the air we breathe and the beating of our hearts, so we do with the ones who gave us life and give us joy. It is time to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. This is the only hope for a bright Montana future.
