Home Alone?

From the Hooked on Houses Blog


One of the Christmas Season's favorite movies is Home Alone. Why do we love it so much?

Do you remember the scene of his mother trying to get back to Chicago to see her boy? She was tired, angry, anxious, worried guilty and frustrated. Every mom can identify with those feelings even they never abandoned their 8 year old kid at a high holiday.

Is it hard to believe that a mother and father would forget their son during the High Holy Days? Can you think of anyone else that did something similar? Well, Mary and Joseph left Jesus behind for three days! Can you imagine how they felt? Embarrassed?mguilty? Ashamed? Angry? Afraid? In a Panic?

I wonder what her Mom said to her. "Don't tell me you list the Messiah!"

I wonder if that film reminds us unconsciously of The Holy Family.

The Bible is filled with stories about family dysfunction and human frailty. Every family recorded in the Holy Book was dysfunctional. The only thing that made the Holy a Family holy was God's grace on a them. The only way we have any righteousness and holiness is a the grace of a God and the presence of Jesus.

Mary and Joseph were obedient and wonderful role models but they were fallible. How about the boy left on his own at home?

If you want to read other dramatic stories of dysfunctional families, read the Bible. Start with King a David or one of his kids.