So I know that one of the things that happens when we hit the Holy Family is one of those

situations where I don't know how you've been, especially over the last couple days since

Christmas, it might have been one of those like, oh, family, yeah, that was the best, family

was the best.

Family is so interesting.

One of the great blessings of life is family and one of the great curses, burdens of

life is the reality of family, not just having a family, but also not having a family.

It's so crazy how quickly we can flip, flop back and forth.

There are people who have a family and they're just like, oh, my gosh, just these people.

And the messiness of that and the way they cost so much in your heart.

And there's others who don't have a family and long for it.

Some of them, I have one, don't want it.

I don't have one and I want one.

And so I recognize right now at this point, I don't know how your last couple days over

the Christmas holiday, over this weekend, or just over life, what your experience has

been when it comes to family.

But I do know this.

My guess is that you have not found pure happiness in family.

I'm just going to go on a limb and say that because a lot of us, we sometimes think that

that's the goal, that's the purpose of family is that it is a place where you find happiness

or even marriage.

That marriage is where you find happiness, that's where you find your joy.

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