As you reflect on your family, you ll remember some good times and some bad times. For some of us, our families were more a source of trouble and pain than anything else. For some of us, family was safe and love-filled place. For most of us, our families have had their ups and downs. Parents are not perfect and children don t often fulfil the dreams of their parents.
Families have good times and bad times, and some more than others.
Some families, like Jacob s, seem to have more problems than one family can handle. But God dreams a dream for us, and it doesn t depend on us to keep it alive. God keeps the dream alive, sometimes, despite our failures. Jacob thinks that Joseph is dead. The brothers have done away with Joseph, and they re about to find out what it s like to live with that kind of guilt.