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Jesus’ Family
Taken from Mark for Everyone
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Mark For Everyone
MARK 3.31–35
Jesus’ Family...
...My older daughter called this morning, to thank us for the Easter present we’d sent her. It will be the first Easter she hasn’t been with us, which will be strange. The six of us have usually been together at Easter, just as at Christmas. If we were Americans, we’d probably add ‘and Thanksgiving’.
But those are about the only times, apart from family weddings and funerals, that one expects a growing family to come back home. They have their lives to live; they have to be where their jobs, or their studying, or their new relationships, will take them. Families in the Western world don’t imagine that they will all live in the same neighbourhood. Sometimes when I talk to friends in North America you’d think the family had deliberately decided to live as far apart as possible: a son in Florida, a daughter in Vancouver, another son in Boston, and so on...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright
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