loving you family including their imperfections - 4th week wednesday 2018

Jesus was not accepted in his own town by his own bolanos because they knew him – they knew his parents, they knew his standing in their town, they knew his family’s source of livelihood, their income, even their character, and perhaps even the dark secret of the family tree.  Indi bala ang aton pamilya which is not a perfect family has also some dark side – ang tiyo naton nga palasugal, ang pariente naton nga may kerida, ang wala-wala gid naton nga utod, ang cousin naton nga drug addict, etc, etc.  And because the people of Nazareth knew the family of Jesus they were inclined not to believe in him.  Probably they have biases on Jesus because they knew his real family and they knew that it was less than a perfect family.  And because of this Jesus could not do miracles there because of their lack of faith in him.  Sang seminarista kami amo ini ang rason kon ngaa ang pari wala gina-assign sa iya mismo parokya.  Well this is still followed as a general rule, although there were exemptions.

But the point I would like to make this morning is the reality that our family is not a perfect family, in the same way that the family of Jesus apart from Mary his mother and Joseph his foster father, apart from these two, the family of Jesus may have been less than perfect also like ours.  May mga ritobado man, may mga uribadon man, may mga ulogtasan man.

Is your father perfect?  No.  Someday, somehow you will discover a lot of imperfections in him.  So also in your mother.  So also in your grandfather and grandmother and your titos and  titas and your cousins, etc.  Nevertheless, we love them, we respect them.  There was a time when I rebelled against my father, I hated him for his actuations, I didn’t like him for he was not expressive in his appreciation for the good that I did.  Nevertheless, he is my father.  For a time I may have rebelled against him but as I grew older I began to appreciate him, I began seeing him as a person who was not always perfect but nevertheless he was somebody who always did what he can to support us in our growth and in our needs.

Learn to love your family.  Learn also to look beyond, learn to understand the imperfections of your family.  And do not let these hinder you from the becoming the good you want to become.