'A household is a community of persons who may well take shelter under one roof but also and more fundamentally take shelter under one another's care and concern. They provide for one another, and they depend on one another. They mingle their assets and their liabilities, in such a way that it is hard to tell where one member's needs and another member's begins.
The household is the fundamental community of persons. Built on more than an isolated pair but encompassing few enough people that all can be deeply and persistently noticed and seen, the household is perfectly sized for the recognition we are all looking for the moment we were born.'
Andy Crouch, The Life We're Looking For, p.151.
