Love Begins At Home

But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, “Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” – Luke 8:38-39, WEB-BE

Sometimes it is easier for us to serve other people than to serve those in our own homes. It is easier for us to join groups for a cause or to donate funds for various institutions caring for the poor than to really take a look at those close to us and ask what they really need.

Love begins at home. It starts with parents caring for their children and for children loving their parents back. It is in being there for each other at the end of the day, sharing stories, heartbreaks, victories. It is caring for our sick folks and for our old grandparents. It is in teaching the kids and in playing with them, letting them know how precious they are because we give them our precious time.

Many times, we don’t need to look very far in order to find someone who needs our love and attention. Let us begin to look in our own families and see what we can do to make our homes the kind of refuge that it should be.

Do we really know our poor? Do we really know the poor in our own house, in our own family? Maybe we are not hungry for a piece of bread. Maybe our children, our husband, our wife, are not hungry, are not naked, are not homeless, but are you sure that there is no one there who feels, unwanted, unloved? Where are your old father and mother? Where are they?…Let us look straight into our own families, for love begins at home. – Mother Teresa

Check Jocelyn's books:

"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.

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