Family Baskets

A family is like a wire-wicker basket.
First, it is holey. A wire-wicket basket, by design, is holey. This is what it means to be wire-wicker. Families are also holy by design. They belong to God and godly families are available to him for whatever he wants.
Second, it is full of things. Baskets are meant to hold things. Families also hold people. People can be loosely associated, but this is very different. Baskets often jumble things together that are not very similar. For example, we have a basket with a picture frame, a clothes-pin, a CD, adhesive envelope seals, letters, bills, and trash in it. These are all dissimilar yet held together by the wire-wicker basket. Families are often holding many things together that otherwise would not be together. Is this by design?
Third, wire-wicker baskets are available in different sizes and shapes. Families also come in different sizes and shapes. Some are large enough for motorcycles, although this kind of basket might more properly be called a "cage."
Fourth, a wire-wicker basket is strong and paintable. Families like-wise are very strong and have endured as an institution since they began. They recieve different looks from people to people and from age to age.
To conclude, wire-wicker baskets are similar to families so much so that apart from some key differences, they are the same. Thank you.



In case you're reading to closely....JUST KIDDING!
No, really. Families are an amazing, wonderful, life-sustaining kind of thing from God. WE should work to uphold our own and other people's.