Pursuing the Ideal

05/13/2018

There is a tension we all feel when it comes to our families, between the "ideal" of Jesus, and the "real" of the people who share your name or address. But the moment you try to resolve the tension, you lose something very important: it's not by abandoning the ideal that we improve the real, but instead, it's the pursuit of the ideal that has the most impact on what's real.