Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. Over the last few weeks, our sense of HOME and FAMILY has been adjusted and readjusted. For essential workers that long to be HOME with family – to telecommuting workers who are learning to manage the blurred lines of family/work and home – to people living on their own in quarantine who are apart from human connection in all it capacities – apart from phone and video conferencing; the account of Jesus making a new FAMILY AND HOME connection for his mother and his disciple is one that we can relate to. Either we need “real” connections in our quarantined status – or we need clarity on...
Life is tough, but hope is tougher.