Lenore brought her computerized sewing machine and Traci her scrapbooking supplies and they made themselves at home. Home is often full hands, certainly a full heart. Home is where the heart is, the butt finds rest, and the mind can safely empty. Jubilee is a big event, partly because bureaucracies blanch at the possibility that the mundane is significant. However it is in the well-tilled soil of the mundane that the scriptural imperative finds root.
Family is where the sacred lives in the ordinary.
The U.S. bishops said that well in their 1994 document, Follow The Way of Love . Your family life is sacred because family relationships confirm and deepen this union and allow the Lord to work through you. The profound and the ordinary moments of daily life - mealtimes, workdays, vacations, expressions of love and intimacy, household chores, caring for a sick child or parent, or even conflicts over things like how to celebrate holidays, discipline children or spend money are all the threads from which you can weave a pattern of holiness. Again, that is not strange for family life. Consider that little baby behind crib bars wailing to get out, a semi-appreciative backward glance from the cat you let out, doing someone else's chores, or sending your college kid some money for the phone bill.