"Last evening, dinner at the N’s. The happy reality of a family, its beauty, its goodness. We did not have any important or serious discussions. The children played the piano. Everybody felt ‘good’ quite genuinely. The family does not have a goal, is not pragmatic. The family is a source, it is life, and out of life appear goals. I came home after that evening somehow bathed in that joy, that ‘goodness.’"
Father Schmemann
