Faith and Family

There is something peculiar about the bonds of family that we often recognize without much thought. With the exception of our spouse, we do not choose the people who make up our family. We are born into a link of relationships that precedes us: parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, histories, traditions, joys, and wounds. Before we have much sense of ourselves as individuals, we already belong to others. We are someone's son or daughter, someone's brother or sister, someo

For parents praying for children who have drifted from the faith, the story of Lazarus offers a difficult but steady consolation: God’s delay is not the same as God’s absence.