‘After all, he is our brother, our own flesh.’ Talk about a dysfunctional family! Jacob/Israel’s family (in Genesis) had dysfunction in spades. The above quote comes when they decide to sell one of their brothers rather than let him die in the cistern into which they’d thrown him! Nice!! Still, somehow God took these petty people and used them for good. A lesson for me; not to judge, not to assume coming from a troubled family means a person can be written off as useless, unworthy of trust, unworthy of love. They can do great things given a chance; I need to give them that chance by keeping an open mind.
