The Multi-Generational Vision

Today let me say a few words about our multi-generational vision for the family.

Maybe you noticed, in my little list I posted yesterday, that I talked about you in your old age as well. This has a simple reason: What God has joined in marriage, we are not to put asunder, and so we plan on all of us living on our "family compound" until we die. If God is merciful and grants us a big family and many children, we will hopefully see our grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up on the "compound", which basically means that our children will stay on the family land when they are married, build their house next to ours, and so will their children, and so on.

The idea is that the very young as well as the very old, and all ages in between, have a place in the family where they can live a fulfilled life, and do meaningful work appropriate for their age and abilities. The young add strength and fresh ideas to the family endeavor, the elderly their experience and wisdom. Everybody can benefit from the presence of the other, all the joys and all the burdens are shared... In short, the multi-generational, plural family has the potential to provide everything for the family that now is provided by the state, from schooling to taking care of the elderly, from health services to food supply.

Ideally, the multi-generational polygynous family is independent from society and can rely on its own members to provide whatever is needed by itself. Why is self sufficiency our goal, you ask ? The reason is simple: Society is largely ungodly and prevents us from living according to God's Law Word wherever it can, so that we may serve the state. But that, to us, is compulsion, because the state ignores and violates God's Law Word in any number of ways as is its own god and its own law giver. Since we follow God's guidelines alone, separation from the world, and hence self-sufficiency, are crucial.