Article January 9, 1989 Issue

There's something everyone can do in a family

A Friend was telling me her parents had just got divorced. She said, "I grew up thinking that nothing could go wrong with my family. It isn't fair that nobody tells kids what could happen to the people they love."

I've thought a lot about what she meant, because there have been times when I felt the same way. But I'm not sure the only solution is to tell young people to expect the worst so they won't be so hurt. Instead, what would happen if we began to show them how to help their families face and heal the challenges that confront them?

Some of my best memories are times our family faced challenges together—through prayer. The first one I remember particularly well happened when I was about ten years old; my brother was a few years younger. We and our parents were living with my granddad. Mom didn't work at a job outside our home, and Dad felt he needed to do better at supporting the family. So he decided to quit the job he had and start a car-repair garage on his own. But he didn't have much money to start with. And things looked a little scary.

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