Editorial April 10, 1989 Issue

Always an unbroken family

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

Can what's broken so badly ever be mended? we may wonder.

Perhaps there has been adultery or physical harm in a marriage. Or maybe the offenses are small and continual, apparently wearing away love over a lifetime. Can what's broken so badly ever be mended? the heart keeps crying out.

There are times, we know, when dissolving a marriage may be humane and nearest right. But even then there will afterward be a need for healing. The strongest basis for this healing or for the repair of a relationship in the first place is progress in the spiritual understanding that in the deepest, broadest sense, family is never broken.

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