All will be Well

The creator from the beginning made them male and female and that he said: This is why a man must leave father and mother, and cling to his wife, and the two become one body. They are no longer two, therefore, but one body. So then, what God has united, man must not divide.
Mt.19:4-6

Jesus clearly defines the makeup of marriage. One man and one woman, becoming one body.

A prime minister here in New Zealand proclaimed, "If it's good for the family, it's good for the nation. If it's bad for the family it's bad for the nation." This was in the 1970s when there was no confusion about what constitutes a family. 

While there is much bad happening for families today, there is also much good. I have four married children. They all have their particular crosses to bear but they are all working on their marriages and I would say are happy at their work. 

I look at my children's marriages and think, "There is the silver bullet for the troubles of modern society." If all fathers would demonstratively love the mothers of their children, any statistic on social breakdown would be halved... at least. Children may go to school in bare feet with no breakfast, but if they know that dad loves mum, all is well in their world. It's not  rocket science.

Jesus, I ask you to bless my marriage and the marriages of my children, so that all will be well.