The Foundations

A family's house has been blown over in a storm - and now it's only splintered bits of wood, sticking out here and there, and all their belongings have been blown away or buried.

The man who build the house, the father of the family, looks at his wife and children, standing all forlorn and shivering, clinging to each other, crying for their loss. He looks across his time to when he was a younger man and built the house, and didn't go too far into the woods to find the strongest tree trunks, as he had wanted to be rid of all the work and set to drinking and talking with his friends instead.

He sighs, then smiles, goes to his wife and children, holds them tight and tells them not to worry, the next house will be built to last.